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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![Still image taken from PBS NewsHour video, Syrians try to salvage life from the wreckage of Raqqa. Aired August 16, 2017.](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20510%20315'%2F%3E "Still image taken from PBS NewsHour video, "Syrians try to salvage life from the wreckage of Raqqa." Syria, 2017.")
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: What Comes After ISIS Goes?
The Real Tragedy of Raqqa Gayle Tzemach Lemmon An unsteady alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalists: Matt Kennard and Claire Provost
During the War on Terror, the rise of private military contractors (PMCs) became an international...
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Project
Syria: The Next Chapter
The Syrian war: We see the headlines, but know far less about the people caught in the conflict's...
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Praveena Somasundaram from Guilford College traveled to southern India to report on gender...
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What happens to civil society in a country that democratically elects a leader who encourages the...
![Still image taken from PBS NewsHour video, Syrians try to salvage life from the wreckage of Raqqa. Aired August 16, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-17-17/screen_shot_2017-08-17_at_4.20.25_pm.png.webp?h=b326326d&itok=wjN_95z0 "Still image taken from PBS NewsHour video, "Syrians try to salvage life from the wreckage of Raqqa." Syria, 2017.")
![Josie, a 43-year-old former "shabu" (methamphetamine) user and pusher, navigates the living area of the bar in a rural area of the Philippines, where she works as a housekeeper. She is being watched by one of the bar worker's daughters. Recently Josie fled the Market 3 slum in Navotas because she feared assassins might come to execute her. Her drug-related activities were well known in Market 3 and many others have been executed for similar activities. Image by James Whitlow Delano. Philippines, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/07-25-17/delano_market_3_ejk_030-2_1.jpg.webp?h=10d202d3&itok=AgPToI6u "Josie, a 43-year-old former "shabu" (methamphetamine) user and pusher, navigates the living area of the bar in a rural area of the Philippines, where she works as a housekeeper. She is being watched by one of the bar worker's daughters. Recently Josie fled the Market 3 slum in Navotas because she feared assassins might come to execute her. Her drug-related activities were well known in Market 3 and many others have been executed for similar activities. Image by James Whitlow Delano. Philippines, 2017.")
![Remy Fernandez, 84 years old, holds two of the seven grandchildren she is raising. Her youngest son, Constantino de Juan, a methamphetamine user, was killed by masked men in December, 2016. Upon seeing his attackers, Juan instructed five-year-old CJ, shown here wearing a red tank top, to take care of his siblings. The children's mother is in prison due to a drug arrest. Baby RJ, in the "daddy's little helper" T-shirt, was born in prison. Image by James Whitlow Delano. Philippines, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-11-17/delano_remy_payatas_1001.jpg.webp?h=43594a01&itok=dZjfLruw "Remy Fernandez, 84 years old, holds two of the seven grandchildren she is raising. Her youngest son, Constantino de Juan, a methamphetamine user, was killed by masked men in December, 2016. Upon seeing his attackers, Juan instructed five-year-old CJ, shown here wearing a red tank top, to take care of his siblings. The children's mother is in prison due to a drug arrest. Baby RJ, in the "daddy's little helper" T-shirt, was born in prison. Image by James Whitlow Delano. Philippines, 2017.")
