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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Borderland Sisterhood
In 2018, hundreds of nuns descended on the U.S.-Mexico border to volunteer in migrant shelters. Many...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Despite the abolition of the slave trade around the world in the 19th century, descendants of freed...
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A historic performance of The Box, a piece of transformational theater based on a journalist’s...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Corrupt Cop Reigns Over Baltimore's Streets
Cops and Robbers Justin Fenton In a story straight out of the popular 2000s television series The...
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Cops and Robbers
A Baltimore Sun investigation into a rogue squad of police officers who used the authority of the...
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The Last River
A series of reports on the threats and resistance activities linked to the defence of the last river...
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Brazil’s newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro is threatening to eradicate Indigenous lands in...
![Nkanu West, Enugu. Image by canonim [CC BY 2.0]. Nigeria, 2014.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-30-19/2880px-nkanu_west_enugu.jpg.webp?h=c0da280e&itok=D1ttr2sb "Nkanu West, Enugu. Image by canonim [CC BY 2.0]. Nigeria, 2014.")
![Cacique (or "Chief") Ezequiel João in front of the walls of his residence. "Demarcação Já!" (or "Demarcation Now!" is written as a form of protest to the government's long delay in demarcating and protecting the territories that were promised to his village. Image by Rafael Lima. Brazil, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/08-12-19/img_3256.jpg.webp?h=cb709f51&itok=DwBfLWGH "Cacique (or "Chief") Ezequiel João in front of the walls of his residence. "Demarcação Já!" (or "Demarcation Now!" is written as a form of protest to the government's long delay in demarcating and protecting the territories that were promised to his village. Image by Rafael Lima. Brazil, 2019.")
