The World's Most Toxic Places

Pollution sickens and kills millions of people worldwide each year View this email in your browser A round-up of reporting from our grantees, upcoming events, and news from the Pulitzer Center Undark Toxic Tanneries and Textiles Debbie Price and Larry C. Price In a four-part series for Undark, grantees Larry C. Price and Debbie Price expose the dangerous underside of unregulated leather and textile factories in Bangladesh and Indonesia. The factories supply fashion goods at the bargain prices global consumers demand—but at untold cost to the health of local workers, often children, who toil for low wages in grossly polluted workplaces. If you are an educator and would like to bring this important project into your classroom, please visit our Lesson Builder. Read Story Bloomberg Businessweek Pirates and Smugglers Michael Scott Moore The Somali migrant grantee Michael Scott Moore profiles for Bloomberg Businessweek lived like a slave for nearly a year on the coast of Libya. In a smugglers' camp in northern Sudan he saw fellow migrants executed. His harrowing journey is part of "going on tahriib," the new trans-Africa migration experience. Read Story Donald Trump, the Media, and the World Jon Sawyer In speeches this month Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer and Senior Advisor Marvin Kalb each addressed the first tumultuous weeks of the administration of President Donald J. Trump. Read Story EVENTS Nuclear Power Play: A Screening and Discussion Wednesday, March 22 Albright-Hadley Middle East Conversation at University of Pennsylvania Wednesday, March 1, 2017 MORE FROM PULITZER CENTER The Guardian Illegal Logging in Malawi: Can Clean Cooking Stoves Save Its Forests? Nathalie Bertrams and Ingrid Gercama NatGeo Your Shot Launches Joint Assignment with Pulitzer Center The National Interest Why Iran's Shia Threat Is Very Real for Faraway Egyptians Geneive Abdo Job Opening: Office Manager/Human Resources Coordinator TIME A Syrian Family Waits to Learn Their Fate Aryn Baker Science Magazine The Great Greenland Meltdown: Why the Ice Sheet Is Turning Black, Blue and Brown Eli Kintisch Pulitzer Center Partner ICIJ Wins George Polk Award Welcome to St Petrock's Caitlin Bawn DONATE The Pulitzer Center promotes in-depth engagement with global affairs through its support for quality international journalism across all media platforms and an innovative program of outreach and education. You are receiving this email because you either opted in at our website or signed up at a Pulitzer Center event. Our mailing address is: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW Suite 615 Washington, District Of Columbia 20036 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list