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
Widowhood and Women's Rights
Students learn about the legal, political, cultural, and religious factors that impact the treatment of widows in India, Uganda, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Project
Duterte and the Philippines
A new president is elected in the Philippines on a promise that he will crack down on drugs, dealers...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: U.S. Detention, Civil War in South Sudan
This week: how immigrants are being mass incarcerated, cheap clothes for the U.S. means miserable...
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Mass killings, mass rape, ethnic cleansing, starvation and a lack of international will to act...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Daniella Zalcman
For more than a century, the Canadian government operated a network of Indian residential schools...
![Two protesters, Sara and Sunny, holding signs in solidarity with the khawaja sira community. Signs right to left read: "Let us live, too" and "Government members, stop discriminating against khawaja siras." Image by Ikra Javed. Pakistan, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/01-10-17/dsc00354.jpg.webp?h=790be497&itok=1x4b5dvz "Two protesters, Sara and Sunny, holding signs in solidarity with the khawaja sira community. Signs right to left read: "Let us live, too" and "Government members, stop discriminating against khawaja siras." Image by Ikra Javed. Pakistan, 2016.")
