A Trafficked Girl

Nigerian teenage girls' desperate journey View this email in your browser A round-up of reporting from our grantees, upcoming events, and news from the Pulitzer Center The New Yorker A Trafficking Route to Hell Ben Taub This is the story you haven't read, a masterful 12,000-word account for The New Yorker by grantee Ben Taub on the grim factors driving the trafficking of thousands of young girls from one region in Nigeria across the deserts of Niger and Libya to cramped resettlement centers in Sicily. It is a tale of poverty, promises betrayed, organized crime, and—in the "civilized" cities of western Europe—a market for young African prostitutes. Ben tells the story by meticulously retracing the journey of a young girl named Blessing, caught in the trafficking web. Read Story PBS NewsHour The Leather Industry's Toxic Toll Larry C. Price and Justin Kenny You can smell the place long before you see it. Grantees Larry Price and Justin Kenny report for PBS NewsHour on the health hazards and hellish working conditions in the tanneries of Bangladesh. Read Story The New York Times Paradise Lost Kai Schultz Grantee Kai Schultz looks at the low-lying Maldives' losing battle against rising seas as it tries to salvage its democracy and its lucrative tourism industry. Kai's reporting is featured in The New York Times and Foreign Policy. Read Story EVENTS HIV in South Africa: Misha Friedman Shares Reporting Insights with City College of Chicago Wednesday, April 5 2017 Pulitzer Center-CUGH Global Health Film Festival Saturday, April 8 MORE FROM PULITZER CENTER Daniella Zalcman Won Arnold Newman Prize for 'Signs of Your Identity' Open for Proposals: Independent Media Organizations and Property Rights Foreign Policy Ukraine's Underground AIDS-Treatment Railroad Sophie Pinkham and Misha Friedman PRI's The World Asylum Seekers in Hungary Are Detained in Shipping Containers Jeanne Carstensen NPR Poverty Plus a Poisonous Plant Blamed for Paralysis in Rural Africa Amy Maxmen and Neil Brandvold City Lab Inside East Jerusalem's Bus System for Palestinians Miriam Berger The National Interest The Fabric of Arab Society Is in Tatters Geneive Abdo Chicago Council on Global Affairs Food Security Podcast: Syrian Seeds Sow Hope for Global Food Security Jennifer Duggan and Roger Thurow 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