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: 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...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson tells the story of the collapse of the Middle East over the last 15 years, from the...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Lesson Plans Connect Students to "Fractured Lands"
Connect students to this gripping modern history of the Middle East with lesson plans for K-12 and...
August 11, 2016 -
Lesson Plans
Technology and Activism in Mexico
The following global affairs lesson plan for history, ELA, Spanish, and Humanities teachers investigates the use of technology in Mexico to combat corruption, and the impacts of that activism.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalists: Allison Shelley and Ana P. Santos
Writer Ana P. Santos and documentary photographer Allison Shelley traveled to Denmark for their...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Photojournalist Daniella Zalcman Wins 2016 Inge Morath Award
"Signs of Identity" is recognized for Zalcman's "creative approach" to documenting the lives of...
July 22, 2016 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalists: Julia Barton and Misha Friedman
Captured Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko came home to a hero's welcome on May 25, 2016, after a...
![Jennifer D. Cuevas, left, helps Yvette Roepstorff, a fashion agent, make dinner at the Roepstorff home](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-01-16/01_a3186.jpg.webp?h=28121b77&itok=4Ljbl2MJ "Jennifer D. Cuevas, left, helps Yvette Roepstorff, a fashion agent, make dinner at the Roepstorff home in the affluent suburb of Klampenbourg, where Cuevas works as an au pair, just north of Copenhagen, Denmark, May 21, 2016. Cuevas is the family's tenth au pair and will likely be the last. With new paperwork costs, insurance and monthly pay, the costs are far more then when the family hired their first au pair. "Also, my teenage daughter needs to learn the value of cleaning her own room," says Roepstorff. "For her, the party will soon be over." Image by Allison Shelley. Denmark, 2016.")
![Marcel Ellery](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/03-30-16/daniellazalcman-soyi-04.jpg.webp?h=04d92ac6&itok=Pl1z2xUe ""I ran away 27 times," said Marcel Ellery, who attended the Marieval Indian Residential School from 1987-1990. "But the (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) always found us eventually. When I got out, I turned to booze because of the abuse. I drank to suppress what had happened to me, to deal with my anger, to deal with my pain, to forget. Ending up in jail was easy, because I'd already been there." Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.")
