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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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Susan Meiselas
Over the past decade, foreign investors have purchased land in Honduras near Trujillo, capitalizing...
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Real estate investors are violating the hard-fought land rights of the Garífuna, an Afro-Caribbean...
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Indigenous rights and visual literacy take center stage in these activity ideas and classroom resources, using reporting from six countries by Magnum photographers.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Thomas Dworzak
In northern Tanzania, not far from the Kenyan border, the Maasai people are seeing their ancestral...
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The Lumad people are suffering, and the world has largely turned a deaf ear.
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Project
The Prison Next Door
Brazil’s prison system is in crisis. The wives and mothers of inmates at Alcaçuz—some who live right...
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This project looks at struggles over land rights faced by indigenous communities in Sarawak...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Call to Release Shahidul Alam
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is calling on Bangladeshi authorities to promptly release...
August 7, 2018
