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.
Abortion is illegal in El Salvador, and even women who suffer miscarriages have been sentenced to 30-year prison terms. But advocacy groups are highly-organized, skilled, and committed to the fight.
Sometimes the act of combating global warming can create victims. Few people understand this better than the Ngäbe-Buglé, the largest indigenous group in Panama.
Barack Obama was determined to open up to Myanmar. Now the country’s military is slaughtering its most vulnerable ethnic group. Could the United States have prevented it?
An arts and culture podcast features grantee Seema Yasmin's reporting on witch hunts in India.
How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific.
A look at how the Ugandan LGBTQ community—made refugees in their own countries because of their sexuality—build lives of beauty and resilience.
They are the hidden cost of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines: single, teenage mothers whose partners have been killed by police or vigilantes.
Malaysia shelters thousands of mostly Rohingya refugees but offers them few protections, and children bear the brunt of the restrictions.
In South Sudan's civil war, rape is wielded as a weapon. Despite dangerous stigma, some South Sudanese women are speaking out.
Zulma Corhuari, 16, stepped out for a moment to get an aspirin for her headache. Her family never saw her again. Her brother Victor is desperate and suspects the worst. "There's no justice," he said.
Ivan Ramirez runs an orphanage near Cochabamba. He started with one child—"a delinquent in miniature," Ramirez called him. More children arrived and the orphanage grew. "It was God's plan," he said.
After historic protests in 2016, has the reality of women's rights in Poland improved?
Nearly 20 years since the end of apartheid, discrimination in South Africa has a new form. Healthcare inequality has taken the place of forced segregation in rural and urban townships.
In rural western Nepal, many women are sent to live in animal sheds while they are menstruating. This ingrained cultural practice, called chaupadi, can wreak unintended havoc on their health.
Tiny children and teens toil in the gold mines of the Philippines and Indonesia. A risky, often deadly, business, child labor is growing as families rush to exploit the worldwide demand for gold.
America's appetite for inexpensive shrimp from Southeast Asia is growing, but at what cost? In Thailand, illegal and abusive labor practices go unchecked to feed a booming demand.
In South Africa, women are not equal. The fight to end apartheid has been waged and won, but the fight for gender equality continues.
Urban public health is one of the most pressing yet neglected issues facing the developing world.
Two transitioning economies, similar development challenges, vastly different population size and stage of growth. Can they learn from each other about providing better healthcare to their people?
Before the international response to the earthquake of 2010 one challenge Haiti didn't face was cholera. Now it does, with 7,000 already dead and a continuing challenge for the entire country.
Iraq's Kurds are in business while Turkey and its own Kurdish population are at war. Will success in Iraqi Kurdistan ease tension in Turkey, or will it break an ethnic bond?
A battle is being waged in the rainforests of Panama – between those who want to keep their way of life, and those who want economic growth. At stake: billions worth of precious metals.
In Ivory Coast—the world’s top cocoa producer—cocoa farmers bore the brunt of a civil war that killed thousands and displaced more than a million. A year after a power transfer, has anything changed?
Anonymous and spoken, landai , two-line Pashtun poems, have served for centuries as a means of self-expression for women. Today they are an important vehicle of public dissent.
Jason Motlagh's winning 2014 Virginia Quarterly Review article chronicles aftermath of the Rana Plaza collapse, sharing stories of the survivors and families of the dead.
“Finally, some action and lives saved." The Philippine government bans compressor mining.
Matter of ACT Special Mention Award for Best Film goes to 'The Abominable Crime.'
Photojournalist documents Mexican communities affected by poverty and rampant crime, including disappearance of the 43 students in Guerrero state.
Who is looking out for journalists, especially freelancers, working in hostile environments and conflict zones?
What gave rise to Mexico's culture of extreme violence?
Can mapping neural pathways help us make friends with our enemies?
Rarely does a film launch take place at Britain’s House of Commons, but there seemed no more appropriate venue for the official release of the Sinhala translation of the documentary film No Fire Zone.
Volunteers travel to Syrian refugee neighborhoods to teach war-traumatized children that they are future peace-makers.
Shiho Fukada's multimedia documentary illustrates the global unemployment crisis and growing gap between rich and poor.
The world wants gold. In developing countries like the Philippines and Indonesia families struggle to survive. The result? Children and teens toiling in the mines, risking mercury and cyanide poisonin
Micah Fink hopes film inspires engagement on difficult conversation about homophobia, especially in Jamaica.
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