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February 2016

boston youth jobs protest
Rights

Boston youth rally against unemployment, incarceration

BOSTON — Amid the crowd of hundreds of teenagers armed with megaphones and homemade signs, a line of...

Feb 23, 2016
War and Peace

Analysis: Egypt after Mubarak

Five years after the fall of a dictator, Egypt faces echoes of the past CAIRO — The Egyptian bazaar known...

Feb 12, 2016
Middle East

Meet Zakia and Ali, Afghanistan’s Romeo and Juliet

They are human beings, and as poor and unlucky and ill-educated as they might be, they have just...

Feb 12, 2016
Announcements

Infuriated and Inspired, YouthVoices are Ready to be Heard

I’ll never forget running along a student protest under the Arc de Triomf in Barcelona last year, as chants...

Feb 11, 2016
Local residents wait in line to pick up Brita water filters at the Flint Fire Department in downtown Flint on January 15, 2016. Following the declaration for a state of emergency, local fire stations began acting as water resource centers, where residents could pick up water filters, lead testing kits and cases of bottled water. (Brittany Greeson/GroundTruth)
A New Light

We Fear The Water: Flint Residents in Their Own Words

While completing an internship at the Flint Journal in Flint, Michigan, GroundTruth Emerging Photographer Brittany Greeson documented the lives...

Feb 08, 2016
A New Light

Syrian Refugees of Jordan’s and Lebanon’s Camps

Jordan Ahamd Caher, 15, a Syrian refugee from Golan Heights, sits on a bed in his family’s caravan...

Feb 05, 2016
Middle East

Refugee crisis in Jordan reaches a ‘boiling point’

AMMAN, Jordan — The refugee camps layered across the hillsides here look like an archaeological excavation, revealing the sediment...

Feb 02, 2016
Alberto Ramon, 20, came to Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic to join his father and found work as a barber. He plans to move to the United States as soon as he gets the opportunity. "It's better to go somewhere else than here," he says. "There's nothing. If customers used to come weekly, now they come monthly...Hopefully this year, God willing, I am going to the U.S." (Edwin Torres/GroundTruth)
A New Light

Rethinking the Future Amid an Economic Crisis: Portraits of Puerto Rico

Alberto Ramon, 20, came to Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic to join his father and found work...

Feb 01, 2016
Announcements

Watch: YouthVoices Launch Event

The Global Center for Youth Employment, RTI International, and the GroundTruth Project will launch YouthVoices – a digital...

Feb 01, 2016

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