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.
South Sudan, the youngest nation in the World, turned 7 years old on the 9th of July 2018. But lives are still lost, and the optimism that came with independance is now a distant memory.
In South Sudan, since the beginning of the war, thousands of women and girls have been captured by government and opposition forces. Many of them became the “wives” of the soldiers.
Australia and New Zealand contract with companies to design and manage facilities and reward the companies financially if their prisoners’ recidivism rates fall.
Abandonment, persecution, violence: childhoods are lost as young Nigerians are branded as witches.
The fight against militias that roam CAR's displaced persons camps and now persecute the very people they claim to protect.
In South Sudan there are still 19,000 children in armed forces, with boys trained to fight and girls taken as "wives."
Sarah Aziza contextualizes journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance with the fate of other critics of the Saudi government.
Amid the new revelations about the shocking death of Jamal Khashoggi, Democracy Now speaks with investigative journalist and Pulitzer Center Grantee Sarah Aziza about Saudi Arabia’s long history of targeting dissidents.
Khashoggi's case sends a chilling message to independent Saudi voices and castigates those who've called MBS a reformer.
Despite promises of reform, Saudi Arabia is escalating its assault on civil society—and, for the first time, women have become its primary targets.
Some officials are acting based on sectarian motives, and not according to the laws of the state.
Yemen's ongoing civil war has left 400,000 children fighting for their lives from malnutrition, and aid agencies are struggling to help.
The tensions between India's patriarchal traditions and modernism can be seen in the struggle against dowry violence.
When protests flooded Turkey, they revealed deep problems. Police brutality, authoritarianism, and a fractured opposition moved from the margin to the spotlight. Today, what remains hidden?
In the megalopolis of Lagos, Nigeria, abortion is legally restricted and contraception is hard to come by. What are the consequences for this city's exploding youth population?
In the face of Israeli control of West Bank water sources, land expropriation, and settler violence, Palestinian farmers must deploy innovative methods to sustain their lands – or lose them.
From the streets of Phnom Penh to the rice fields of Cambodia, Melisa Goss explores what lies behind the sex trade and what is being done to prevent it, stop it, and restore those caught in its trap.
With the 2014 World Cup fast approaching, 170,000 Brazilian favela residents are scheduled to relocate. Losing their homes will mean losing their identity and their past.
The Rana Plaza tragedy exposed the hidden cost of Bangladesh’s $20 billion-a-year export garment industry. Jason Motlagh returns to investigate the systemic problems that led to the deadly collapse.
When a Burmese woman marries a Chinese man, she may give up basic human rights. Yet many Burmese women would rather remain stateless than return to Burma. To stay or leave, it is a story of survival.
The wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone have been over for a decade but the psychological scars linger. To be mentally ill in these countries is to be condemned.
At least 1.5 million people have fled the conflict in Syria. Most have taken refuge in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, where they are straining resources and raising concerns about regional stability.
As Colombia struggles to free itself from a vortex of violence, union members, human rights activists and others still feel threatened by criminal elements––and their own government.
Scores of Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2011 in one of the biggest waves of self-immolation in modern history. What impact will they have?
International media organizations nominate 'Fatal Extraction' for innovation in multimedia storytelling.
A panel of four journalists at the 2015 Student Fellows Washington Weekend discuss redefined ethics and the difficulties faced when reporting from the field.
Our 2015 student fellows take on the world.
Reporting on the hazardous conditions of underwater mines in the Philippines wins in Outstanding Investigative Journalism - Newscast category.
Activist Andy Hall faces seven years behind bars in Thailand for research he did on labor abuses.
Award-winning documentary becomes community engagement tool on LGBTI issues via screenings from New York to Jamaica, 24 film festivals, two national broadcasts and more.
Furthering its mission to support freelance journalists and top quality foreign reporting, the Pulitzer Center announces its Catalyst Fund.
As the U.S. wastes another opportunity to take action on climate change, the rest of the world gears up for massive migration.
The White House has softened its protocol regarding families' private payments to hostage takers. Might the policy actually change terrorist behavior?
The search for a story on a deadly occupational disease affecting miners in China leads one journalist to a story of human resilience, loyalty and love.
Ukraine's struggle to build a national identity dates back to the Cold-War. Facing more recent territorial struggles over the Crimea, how will the country's citizens choose to define themselves?
To honor this year's World Refugee Day, we look at the state of refugees around the world, Pulitzer's work to cover their stories, and what the future may look like for 59.5 million displaced persons.
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