OAXACA DE JUÁREZ, MEXICO — Dawn lights up shards of glass along the downtown streets of Oaxaca de Juárez — vestiges of the broken windows of cars that had been parked there during the night. One ...

CAGUAS, PUERTO RICO — The day is just beginning to heat up as dozens of people, most of them elderly, calmly and quietly arrange themselves into a line outside of Centro de Apoyo Mutuo, an initiative ...

ASHULIA, BANGLADESH — Lima Akter, 28, sold her television first. Then her phone, then her refrigerator. Now, she plans to sell her sewing machine. After working in the garment industry for 12 years, ...

TOA ALTA, PUERTO RICO — Over the years, Benjamín González has watched his local landfill grow into a mountain of trash. It has polluted his city’s once-pristine ravines. It has tainted the limestone ...

And outlining what it will take to get it back. HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Wards bustling with highly motivated health care workers, readily available medication, decent salaries, a thriving teaching hospital ...

KAMPALA, UGANDA — Sangara Bahizire occasionally works as a French, Lingala and Swahili interpreter for the Ugandan Judiciary. Until 2013, Sangara had spent three years practicing as an attorney in ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — “Why would one bother seeing a doctor and spending a fortune without any hope of quelling the pain?” asks Ranmolia Gentyl, who has been sick for months. After several doctor ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Blessing Mucharambei’s uncle was just having lunch when he stood up, then collapsed. “[He] started bleeding from the nose,” she says, “and died on the spot.” As far as his family ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — Early this year, Sekuru Shumba, a traditional healer, had an altercation with a client that led to a fistfight. Shumba, who has been practicing his trade for over five years, says ...

KATHMANDU, NEPAL — A centuries-old practice of moving money is in the crosshairs of government officials, who say it’s a hotbed for financial crimes. It’s called the hundi system. This local form of ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — It’s been months since lecturers at the University of Zimbabwe, the country’s oldest and most prestigious university, stepped aside. Their salaries, eroded by inflation and currency ...

Fishermen bemoan dwindling catches as contamination by industrial waste and other pollutants raises concerns about the safety of food and drinking water. NORTON, ZIMBABWE — Paul Majoni stares at the ...