HUMAN RIGHTS. Objectives  Define human rights and identify the 2 basic categories.  Identify key international human rights documents.

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HUMAN RIGHTS

Objectives  Define human rights and identify the 2 basic categories.  Identify key international human rights documents.

Warm Up  What are human rights?  What are the 2 basic categories?  etail.php?id=198 etail.php?id=198  Basic freedoms & rights to which all individuals are entitled.  Political & Civil  Economic, Social, and Cultural

Activity: Video  Story of Human Rights video

Activity  Ranking Human Rights  Take 2 rights at a time and place them in order.  Pick up your next right, place it within existing order…repeat until all rights placed.  Class Top 3 and Bottom 3

Dvpt of Human Rights  US & French Revolutions  Haitian Constitution  php php  mv4.php mv4.php  Geneva Conventions  League of Nations  WWII Justification  olarsonline/kennedy/dk7.php olarsonline/kennedy/dk7.php  Nuremburg Trials  UN Charter  holarsonline/allee/sa9.php holarsonline/allee/sa9.php  holarsonline/pinheiro/psp5.php holarsonline/pinheiro/psp5.php  holarsonline/pinheiro/psp4.php holarsonline/pinheiro/psp4.php  holarsonline/pinheiro/psp9.php holarsonline/pinheiro/psp9.php

Universal Declaration of Human Rights  Adopted Dec 10, 1948  Formal, universal recognition of human rights  All human beings born free and entitled to:  Civil Rights  Legal Rights  Economic Rights  Social Rights  Standard not yet attained

Universal Declaration of Human Rights  How does membership in UN promote human rights?  /allee/sa9.php /allee/sa9.php

International Law of Human Rights  UDHR (1948)  ICCPR – International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)  ICESCR - International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)

Vienna Conference  What happened?  Reaffirmed commitment to UDHR

Human Rights Video

Activity: Scholars Videos  Students will watch a series of videos and complete the activity that accompanies  s/scholars_humanrights.php s/scholars_humanrights.php

Homework  Wiki Post  Are all rights universal? Are economic, social and cultural rights more or less important than political and civil rights?