Human Rights
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Indigenous Rights
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July 2, 2020
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![Fedencia Nacar David holds her photo for an application to work as a maid. She was 15. A year before, a Japanese soldier sliced her ear and threatened to behead her if she didn't go to a garrison with him; she was raped over 10 days. "It still hurts," she says. "I was innocent. Why did that happen to me?" She kept her past from her children until "comfort women" began speaking out in the 1990s. Image by Cheryl Diaz Meyer. Philippines, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/12-07-20/20190510filipinacomfortwomen-cdiazmeyer-22x-19_custom-e5f315036d7fda928e0e86e0cf75a668e7a3911f-s2500-c85.jpg.webp?h=83b361e6&itok=eEipvFLD "Fedencia Nacar David holds her photo for an application to work as a maid. She was 15. A year before, a Japanese soldier sliced her ear and threatened to behead her if she didn't go to a garrison with him; she was raped over 10 days. "It still hurts," she says. "I was innocent. Why did that happen to me?" She kept her past from her children until "comfort women" began speaking out in the 1990s. Image by Cheryl Diaz Meyer. Philippines, 2019.")
![Mike Pinay](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/03-30-16/mike_pinay.jpg.webp?h=8bf96674&itok=4jm8HmAJ "For her project "Signs of Your Identity," photographer Daniella Zalcman juxtaposed her subjects against the former residential schools they once attended in Saskatchewan. In 2008, the Canadian government apologized for the residential school system, which a commission officially labeled "cultural genocide" last year. "It was the worst 10 years of my life," said Mike Pinay, pictured against the residential school he attended from 1953 to 1963. "I was away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about family? I didn't know what love was. We weren't even known by names back then. I was a number." Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.")
![Former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer at Washington University discussing A New Approach to the Middle East. United States, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/02-09-17/wustl_three_hadley_1.jpg.webp?h=e7a533f2&itok=SQWAkgXG "Former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer at Washington University discussing "A New Approach to the Middle East". Image by Lauren Shepherd. St. Louis, Mo., 2017.")
