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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The Italian Roma
This investigation into the lifestyles, struggles and cultures of the Roma people living in Rome...
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A third gender lives in Pakistan, earning livelihoods through begging, sex work and dancing. But a...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Syria's Lawless Land
Impunity for Syria's war criminals, new HIV treatments in South Africa, and a new approach to...
September 7, 2016 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Ben Taub
The Assad Files, a project for The New Yorker, tells the story of a group of war crimes...
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Pulitzer Center Update
UN Acknowledges Role in Haitian Cholera Outbreak
For the first time in six years, the UN has acknowledged responsibility for a cholera outbreak in...
August 19, 2016 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: How the Middle East Unraveled
Read the landmark NYT Magazine issue "Fractured Lands" by Pulitzer Center grantees Scott Anderson...
August 16, 2016 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalists: Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico
Journalists Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico report for the PBS NewsHour on the social and economic...