Recently by Fred de Sam Lazaro
Changing Minds in Senegal to Protect Girls From Genital Cutting
May 9, 2013 | NewsHour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro asks Molly Melching about her efforts to educate Senegalese women about the harms of genital cutting. Molly Melching didn't think she had much more than curiosity -- and a...
Health Care Workers Brace for New Cholera Outbreaks in Haiti
November 2, 2012 | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Hurricane Sandy might have saved its fullest fury for America's mid-Atlantic coast, but its earlier blows in the Caribbean wreaked havoc in Haiti. Already struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane Isaac in August, which...
Profile: Illac Diaz Brings Clean, Cheap Light into Filipino Homes
October 17, 2012 | Photo of Illac Diaz by Fred de Sam Lazaro/PBS NewsHour Filipino Illac Diaz began a project called Liter of Light to do two things in his home country: provide light to those who need it and recycle otherwise useless...
Helping Where 'There Are More Cell Phones Than Toothbrushes'
September 25, 2012 | Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was one of the speakers at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. NEW YORK CITY | The annual Clinton Global Initiative is intended to bring together...
Looking for Famine in Niger and Finding Seeds of Progress
July 12, 2012 | Fatouma Ide is among thousands of Nigerien farmers working in temporary public works jobs to tide them through the hunger season. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro. The first question a journalist asks when deciding whether to report a...
Rio+20 Conference: Stark Contrasts and Little Common Ground
June 18, 2012 | Historic Fort Copacabana is one of the venues for the Rio+20 conferences. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro for the PBS NewsHour. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil | Variety is an inherent fringe benefit of this job, but rarely does...
In Uganda, Anti-Homosexuality Bill's Re-emergence a Touchy Subject
April 5, 2012 | To the Rev. Joseph Serwadda, Uganda's anti-homosexuality legislation is as much a product of resentment against Western influence and donor interference as it is against the country's gay population. Serwadda, who leads an alliance of evangelical ministers, believes "gay-ism" is...
One Acre Fund: a Nonprofit's Business Approach to Helping Small Farmers
April 3, 2012 | Maurice and Joyce Soita were able to send their four children to school after becoming One Acre Fund members. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro. Most international aid agencies are headquartered in major cities: New York, Geneva or Nairobi....
Final Message From HEAL Africa's 'Mama Lyn': Tell Them Not to Cry
March 19, 2012 | Lyn Lusi with some of the women who received help from HEAL Africa. Photo by Nicole See for the NewsHour. HEAL Africa co-founder Lyn Lusi, who died Saturday from cancer at age 62, spent most of her recent...
Anonciata's Story: Seeking Healing After Congo's Brutal Civil War
March 7, 2012 | Photo of Anonciata by Fred de Sam Lazaro for the PBS NewsHour. Few nations are more endowed with mineral resources than the Democratic Republic of Congo and none has endured a more staggering human cost in the scramble for...
Testing Hybrids and Tossing Sandals in the Fight Against 'Wheat Rust'
December 28, 2011 | Example of wheat rust. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro. Scientists say they are making promising strides in their race against Ug99, a stem rust disease that, left unchecked, could wipe out 80 percent of the world's wheat crop....
Somali Refugees Seek 'New Normal' in Ethiopian Camp
November 9, 2011 | Woman and child in malnutrition ward of hospital in Dolo Ado, Ethiopia. Photo by Nicole See. DOLO ADO, Ethiopia | The Hilaweyn refugee camp was set up just a few weeks ago and it already looks like any other...
Brazil's Shifting Views of Church, Abortion and Lifestyle
August 30, 2011 | Family in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Nicole See. Brazil's plummeting birth rate would seem like a triumph for the country's women's movement, which has long fought for information about, and access to, contraception. Today, in what remains...
In Senegal, a Movement to Reject Female Circumcision
August 12, 2011 | Watch the full episode. See more Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. This segment originally aired on PBS' Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. The practice of "female circumcision" is widespread, affecting an estimated 140 million women worldwide. It is also unspoken. Even...
Reporter's Notebook: India's New Baby Boom
August 4, 2011 | Indian surrogate mothers. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro Thursday on the NewsHour, you'll see an excerpt of the film "Made in India," which documents the journey of an infertile American couple and their Indian surrogate. It's part of...
Karachi and Mumbai: A Tale of Two Megacities
July 15, 2011 | Abdul Sattar Edhi works with the poor in Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Nicole See/NewsHour It was a week that saw spasms of terrorist violence in the financial capitals of Pakistan and India, and quite by coincidence -- on unrelated...
Regulators Crack Down on Microfinance Industry in India
March 30, 2011 | New rules aimed at regulating India's microfinance industry, whose spectacular growth and near collapse strongly echo the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, are set to take effect April 1. Neighboring Bangladesh's supreme court will also resume hearing an appeal from...
Reporter's Notebook: Syria's 'Red Lines'
March 18, 2011 | Poster of President Bashar al Assad in Syrian street. Photo by Nicole See Syria's government is not usually hospitable to Western journalists, and officials in Damascus' Ministry of Information seemed as surprised as my teammates, Nikki See, Tom Adair...
Guinea Worm: Parasitic Infection Nearing Extinction
February 23, 2011 | Officials at the Atlanta-based Carter Center said this week that the effort to eradicate the Guinea Worm parasite -- a scourge that dates back to Biblical times -- is now 99 percent complete. In an elaborate ceremony in Atlanta to...
Sudanese Stream to Polls in Southern Secession Vote
January 10, 2011 | Congregants at St. Martin de Porres Church in Bentiu, South Sudan display their voter ID cards on their way to the polling center. BENTIU, Sudan | It is a rare day in southern...
Four Months Later, Pakistan Still Reeling From Floods
January 5, 2011 | Pakistani children in flooded town of Khairpur Nathanshah It is hard not to sympathize just a bit with Pakistani officials who, amid widespread accusations of a feeble, uncoordinated response to last summer's floods, argue...
India Dispatch: Thriving Development Spawns Water, Resource Worries
December 29, 2010 | Boy drinks from water tanker in India. NEW DELHI, India | If there are water wars in the future, conservationist Jyothi Sharma thinks they'll happen just outside her apartment in an upper-middle class enclave in...
Summit Aims to Broaden U.S. Ties With Muslim Entrepreneurs
April 30, 2010 | Entrepreneurship summit attendees. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of State It was an unprecedented gathering of Muslim entrepreneurs in an unlikely place: America's capital. More than 200 men and women, handpicked from 50 countries, return home Friday after...
Eradicating Guinea Worm, Step-by-Step
April 7, 2010 | Poverty rarely gets more degrading than when people are forced to drink from the same muddy ponds as livestock and wild animals. Yet this was a common scene on my most recent visit to Southern Sudan and rural Ethiopia....
Controlling 'Black Carbon' May Be Key to Slowing Climate Change
December 17, 2009 | Black carbon is a relatively new entrant into the climate change lexicon. Professor V. Ramanathan, a leading climate scientist, ranks it behind only carbon dioxide as a cause of global warming. He says it is a major cause of the...
Fred de Sam Lazaro: Making Foreign Stories Less Foreign
December 4, 2009 | This year marks two decades since my first overseas assignment, which actually came quite by accident. This Minnesotan was on his way to India for a winter vacation when my editor suggested that I bring back a story or two...
