Human Rights
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Pulitzer Center Update
Activist Andy Hall Indicted in Thailand
Activist Andy Hall faces seven years behind bars in Thailand for research he did on labor abuses.
August 31, 2015 -
In the following global affairs lesson plan, students demonstrate understanding of current events in Saudi Arabia by providing objective summaries of three texts from journalist Caryle Murphy.
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Students analyze how an author structures articles in different ways to report on malnutrition. The articles come from the project “1,000 Days: To save women, children and the world” by Roger Thurow.
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Although Thailand may appear accepting of transgenders, it ostracizes “ladyboys” from mainstream...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Life and Loss in Syria
To the victor go the spoils, but in Syria’s largest city there won’t be much left.
August 24, 2015
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-22-15/image1_4.jpg.webp?h=1f7c1d57&itok=IJ6ZYQQI "Sopida "Baimon" Siriwattananukoon is the winner of Miss Tiffany's Universe 2015. Image by Julia Boccagno. Thailand, 2015.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-29-15/tumblr_ntlwc3qpyz1rf8lnho1_540.jpg.webp?h=97c04a2e&itok=1XVeZ6WW "This is Mike Pinay, who attended the Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School from 1953-1963. "It was the worst ten years of my life. I was away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about relationships, 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." "Do you remember your number?" "73." Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.")
