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History and Background of Human Rights. History  Ideas  Early Roots  Codification  UN  Movements.

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1 History and Background of Human Rights

2 History  Ideas  Early Roots  Codification  UN  Movements

3 Ideas  Conceptual Beginnings  Natural Rights  Socrates  Plato

4 Early Roots  ACTIVITY 1:  HAMMURABI'S LAW CODE (1780 BCE)  HINDU VEDAS  BIBLE, QUR'AN, TORAH  CONFUCIUS' ANALECTS  EXAMPLES OF HR LAWS  WHO IS PROTECTED?  WHERE DO THEY FALL SHORT? http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/hemispheres/_files/pdf/human_rights/RightsUnit_Complete.pdfa

5 CODIFICATION  Activity 2  MAGNA CARTA (1215)  DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN (1789)  DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776)  UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION (1787)  AMENDMENTS  IMPORTANCE OF RHETORIC  REFERENCES TO PREVIOUS DOCUMENTS/IDEAS  NEW DEVELOPMENTS

6 U.N.  CREATED IN RESPONSE TO MASSIVE HR VIOLATIONS  LEAGUE OF NATIONS  UDHR  CRC  OTHER CONVENTIONS

7 Historical Movements  Activity 3  ABOLITION  ANTICOLONIAL MOVEMENT  WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT  CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT  LABOR MOVEMENT  INDIGENOUS RIGHTS MOVEMENT  CURRENT MOVEMENTS?  NECESSARY MOVEMENTS?  FUTURE MOVEMENTS?


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