A Global Reckoning Around Labor Conditions. An emotional worker is shown in The Guardian documentary The Great Abandonment. Nearly 200 million migrant laborers were stranded without wages, food, and housing after India Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced one of the harshest COVID-19 lockdowns in the world in 2020. Image from The Great Abandonment. India. Grantees Expose Labor Abuses in Qatar, India, the U.S. “I didn’t have any choice but to go abroad to work,” said Surendra Tamang, a migrant worker from Nepal. After laboring through extreme heat and brutal working conditions building Qatar’s World Cup stadiums for six years, now at 31, he will likely be on dialysis for the rest of his life. With eyes on the World Cup since matches began on November 20, flagrant labor abuses of migrant workers are once again in the global spotlight. The Pulitzer Center has long reported on the rights of workers, efforts to organize labor unions and worker advocacy groups, modern sla
For thousands of years, the Amazon rainforest has provided food, water and spiritual connection for its Indigenous inhabitants and the world. But the endless extraction of its natural resources by oil companies and others is destroying the lives of those who live there, says Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo, and threatening the overall stability of Earth's biosphere. In this powerful talk, she reminds us of the destruction that continues to happen to the world's largest tropical rainforest and demands respect for Mother Nature. "The forest is our teacher," she says. (Filmed in Ecuador by director Tom Laffay and associate producer Emily Wright, in collaboration with Amazon Frontlines. In Spanish with subtitles.)
Since November 2016, 343 social leaders have been assassinated in Colombia. It's a reality highlighted by the new short film, "Nos están matando," or "They're…
Tom Laffay as they talk about their project
Mercury Alert, in an event organized by the Institute for Regional and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Pulitzer Center.
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Mercury Alert project has documented why mercury is such a controversial pollutant in the Guiana Shield. Journalists have met the actors involved in the mostly illegal trade, spoke with miners who see their subsistence threatened by mercury prohibitions, health experts, and traffickers.
Ebus is a freelance journalist, investigator, and photographer from the Netherlands based in Bogotá, Colombia. His work has been published in English, Dutch, and Spanish. His reports have appeared in the