News Interactive: A Journey from Bhutan to Pittsburgh
Moriah Balingit, Julia RendlemanMore than 20 years ago, the Lhotshompa people fled ethnic conflict in Bhutan and settled in refugee camps in Nepal. Now the camps are closing, and refugees are being...
View ArticleMeet the Journalists: Julia Rendleman and Moriah Balingit
Julia Rendleman, Moriah BalingitMeet photojournalist Julia Rendleman and reporter Moriah Balingit reporting from the Lhotshampa refugee camps of eastern Nepal. After more than 20 years, the camps are...
View ArticleThis Week: Bhutanese Refugees — From the Himalayan Foothills to the Allegheny...
Tom HundleyFORGOTTEN REFUGEES The world took little notice when, in the early 1990s, the peaceful Kingdom of Bhutan expelled some 100,000 ethnic Nepalis known as Lhotsampas, or “people from the south.”...
View ArticleBhutanese Refugees in Nepal: Leaving Camp
Julia RendlemanA ritual of leaving has become a part of daily life in the Bhutanese refugee camps in eastern Nepal. Three times a week buses leave the camps with those selected for third-country...
View ArticleBhutanese Refugee Portraits
Julia RendlemanThese portraits introduce us to some of the Bhutanese refugees who have immigrated to Pittsburgh and to their family members who are waiting in the camps in Nepal to be resettled. A few...
View ArticleGlobal Health Issues in the Spotlight
Emily BaumgaertnerAt the Student Fellow Washington Weekend forum, Pulitzer Center Health Projects Director Zach Child moderated a panel discussion of three journalists—all former Pulitzer Center...
View ArticleBill Freivogel and Julia Rendleman Speak to 2014 Pulitzer Center Student Fellows
Katherine DoyleAfter this year’s student fellows discussed their projects and bounced ideas off one another and off panelists for two full days, the final capstone came Saturday night with dinner at...
View ArticleField Notes Podcast: Featuring Our Student Fellows
Quinn LibsonOver the weekend of October 10, 2014, the Pulitzer Center hosted its first-ever Campus Consortium Student Fellows Washington Weekend. Seventeen of this year’s 21 student fellows from our...
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2014: A Year in Photos
Meghan DhaliwalEach year, our journalists tackle some of the most pressing yet underreported issues in the world with intelligence, grace and deep sensitivity. 2014 was no different. Our journalists...
View ArticleWorld Refugee Day: International Community Needs to Wake Up
Akela Lacy This year on June 20, UN World Refugee Day, UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency, reported the world’s largest ever recorded number of people forced to flee their homes: 59.5 million...
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