The Pulitzer Center's Human Rights initiatives support vital reporting and audience engagement on topics including gender equality, racial justice, Indigenous rights, religion, and more.
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR JOURNALISTS
Through reporting grants and yearlong fellowship programs, we provide the financial support, collaborative networks, training, and mentorship for hundreds of journalists each year to pursue in-depth investigations and audience engagement on underreported issues impacting human rights across the globe.
HUMAN RIGHTS GRANT
Gender Equality Grant
The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications for investigative data-driven projects on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women & girls.
HUMAN RIGHTS GRANT
Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant by Diversify Photo and the Pulitzer Center
The Eyewitness Grant was conceived as a way to support BIPOC and non-Western photojournalists in the U.S., reflecting both organizations' missions of supporting underreported stories by local journalists.
HUMAN RIGHTS GRANT
Democracy Reporting Grant
The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals for enterprise stories that focus on threats to democratic institutions in the United States and around the world.
HUMAN RIGHTS GRANT
Global Reporting Grant
The Pulitzer Center’s global reporting grants support in-depth, high-impact reporting on critical issues that are often overlooked in the media, from global health to climate change.
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Explore in-personal and virtual events featuring Pulitzer Center journalists, educators, academics, and experts on a broad range of topics, including human rights.
PULITZER CENTER IMPACT
We believe in the power of journalism, education, and public outreach to create real-world change. The work we support engages communities with vital issues that affect their lives, sparks policy and regulatory reform, and holds powerful people and institutions to account.
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT
New Law Requires Maine Police To Be More Transparent About Misconduct
A new Maine law will require law enforcement agencies to be more transparent about the misconduct of their officers, but police union contracts can still dictate how long discipline records are retained, prompting some to see a continued threat to the public’s right to know.
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT
Federal Agents Investigate Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of Forced Labor
Following a Pulitzer Center-supported investigation, special agents from Homeland Security Investigations probed into working conditions at the Central Romana Corp., a major exporter of sugar to the United States.
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT
Georgia To Ban Overseas Couples From Hiring Women as Surrogates
Six months after the release of the Pulitzer Center-supported series The Baby Broker Project, the Republic of Georgia has banned foreign surrogacy agencies from flying into Georgia and hiring Georgian women as surrogates for couples around the world.
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Each week, the Pulitzer Center newsletter features a selection of underreported international news stories supported by the Pulitzer Center.
