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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Lesson Plans
News Bite 5: Ebola's Legacy
In this lesson, students will learn about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the people who worked to slow the epidemic, and the aftermath the disease has wrought upon the region.
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PART OF: Dying for the Planet: Attacks on Environmental Journalists in the Age of Climate ChangeDecember 16, 2015
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Students will read a piece by Pulitzer Center grantee Alice Su and discuss a contentious issue: refugees and extremism.
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Lesson Plans
Fragile States and Our Communities: Part 2
In this lesson, students determine main ideas in new information on fragile states and identify their own and others' points of view.
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PART OF: Unsafe Abortion in Kenya and the Ripple Effects of U.S. Foreign Aid PolicyDecember 3, 2015
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A seemingly harmless restriction on U.S. foreign aid money has effectively blocked abortion access...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Nigerian Journalists Dig Deep Into Land and Property Rights
Recap of a two-day investigative journalism workshop held in Lagos for Nigerian journalists...
December 3, 2015
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/12-07-15/01_warwidows2015edit014.jpg.webp?h=a1e1a043&itok=ck52W8IC "Bibi Aisha, 60, has five children and lost her husband during the Taliban regime 19 years ago. She has diabetes and lives with her extended family in Kabul. She used to beg but now depends on her son, who is a laborer. "It is not good to be a widow, it has no benefits, we are on our own," she says. Image by Paula Bronstein. Afghanistan, 2015.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/12-04-15/5661c86b210000c9005ac504.jpg.webp?h=fa766a13&itok=lfm7bviB "Kath Khangpiboon (above) says she doesn't understand the university's logic to reject her for the lecturer position. "They use my lipstick that looks like a penis, and they said that it's an ugly picture for students," she said. "If someone, the parents of the students, see that you are the lecturer and [what] you put [on] your Instagram, you cannot be the lecturer. This is the Thai way of thinking." Image by Julia Boccagno. Thailand, 2015.")
