Human Rights
According to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. And yet around the world, many people are denied basic human rights, or find their rights under threat. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Human Rights” feature reporting that covers the fight for equality under the law, civil rights and the basic dignity afforded every person. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on human rights.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Sharp Seminar Fellows Make a World of Connections
“Journalism is not dead—it’s reimagining itself,” Ted Maris-Wolf said over a video call. Reflecting...
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Lesson Plans
The Bodies We Forget
Students will read reporting on disabled pregnant women in Malawi and explore how hospitals can dehumanize or protect patients in order to create advocacy pieces that call for dignified care for all...
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What the treatment looks like and how it is funded
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Project
Chicago's Baltic Bond
Two Chicago journalists explore democracy, defense, and the economy in Lithuania.
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Guatemala is rapidly acquiring artificial intelligence systems, biometric databases, and...
![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.")
