DPIJI Stories
An Inconvenient Genocide: Why We Don’t Know More About the Uyghurs
by Tom Gjelten, September/October 2021
In the 1930s, America failed to stand up to Nazi actions against the Jews. Will history repeat itself with the Uyghur minority in China’s Xinjiang region?
The Yazidis: A Faith Without A Future
by John Beck, Spring 2020
In 2014, ISIS forced members of this religious minority from their homes in Iraq, massacring thousands and kidnapping even more. Many fled the country. The rest remain displaced, afraid to return home.
Persecuted in Pakistan
by Taha Anis, May/June 2018
Forbidden from calling themselves Muslims, targeted by religious extremists, Ahmadis still cling to the country they helped establish.
Strangers in Their Own Land
by May Jeong, September/October 2017
Instead of the peace expected from the end of the long civil war between Tamil and Buddhists, Buddhist nationalists turned on their Muslim neighbors.
Shadows in the Golden Land
by Cameron Conaway, September/October 2016
The story of the Rohingya Muslims—considered by some the most persecuted minority in the world—who are confined to camps in Myanmar.
Birthright Denied
by Jacob Kushner, September/October 2015
Reporting on the Dominican Republic’s efforts to take away citizenship from tens of thousands of Haitians who were born in the country.
A House Divided
by Eve Fairbanks, May/June 2013
A story about the integration and subsequent re-segregation of the dorms at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein and how racial attitudes changed on both sides as they did; the story was nominated for the Livingston Award.
The New Normal
by Brian Schaefer, September/October 2012
An exploration of the roots of prejudice against homosexuals in Judaism and gay life in Israel and the military’s role in reversing it; the story was nominated for the Livingston Award.
An Olympian Struggle
by Emily Alhadeff, July/August 2012
The nation’s first and only boycott of Israeli products by a food co-op ignites a fiercely personal community and legal battle in Olympia, Washington, the hometown of Rachel Corrie.