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Kenya film Togetherness Supreme

Andrea Crossan | Kenya | August 05, 2010

Photo courtesy of PRI's "The World" Kenyans went to the polls Wednesday to vote on a draft constitution. The new constitution was introduced in ...
Brazil water protection a $100 Million Market?

Theresa Bradley | Brazil | June 04, 2010

São Paulo state's Atibainha Reservoir feeds the Cantareira water system, one of Latin America’s biggest. ...
IRP Journalists Report on “Loose Nukes” Issues

IRP Staff | United States | May 10, 2010

The spread of illicit nuclear materials, or “loose nukes,” is one of the most urgent issues of our time. IRP Fellows Joby Warrick, Sharon ...
Black Hole on the Black Sea

Sharon Weinberger | Georgia | May 06, 2010

Last fall, I boarded a ramshackle bus winding through the villages and vineyards on the Georgian side of the demarcation line with the breakaway ...
A New Start

Tara McKelvey | Russia | April 28, 2010

For decades no one could enter or leave Elektrostal without the permission of the Soviet security services. After World War II, the city (whose name means “electric steel”) ...
IRP receives Overseas Press Club Citation

IRP Staff | Rwanda | April 22, 2010

Perry Beeman reporting from Rwanda The International Reporting Project (IRP) has been awarded a citation by the Overseas Press Club in its 2009 ...
Borderline detection

Sharon Weinberger | Georgia | March 04, 2010

The radiation alarm started wailing and flashing its red strobe light on an otherwise ordinary day last August as a car tried to pass through the Sadakhlo border crossing. The ...
Doctors in Peru battle increasingly drug-resistant TB

Francine Uenuma | Peru | March 02, 2010

MDR-TB patients face discrimination, long road to recovery in Peru Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course ...
Peru’s Mineral Wealth and Woes

Toni Johnson | Peru | February 12, 2010

Introduction LIMA, PERU -- The commodities boom of the last decade fueled growth, but it also poses social and environmental problems. Peru is emblematic of the economic promise ...
Kurt Holle’s ecolodge employs locals while slowing the devastation of the Amazon

Matthew Clark | Peru | February 02, 2010

Kurt Holle opened the Posada Amazonas ecolodge in 1996 and will turn over all operations to locals in 2016. photo: Matthew Clark/The Christian ...