1. “Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right” – Malala Yousafzai

2. Malala Yousafzai
What kind of rights did the Taliban take away from Malala and other women and female children?
What is Malala fighting for?

3. So from Malala’s story, we learn the importance of Human Rights
In your groups…
What are the rights that everyone in the world should be entitled? Make a list of 5 in your table groups.
Who should determine these rights?
Who should be the ‘enforcer’ of these rights?

4. Class contribution

5. Who should have been the ‘enforcer’ of Malala’s rights?

6. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
Human Rights: Universal rights, based on what we generally believe to be right or wrong, which apply to all people, in all countries, at all times
Adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10th, 1948
Created as a result of the experience Second World War

7. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (continued)
Represents the universal recognition that basic human rights and fundamental freedoms should be applicable to all human beings
The rights outlined in the UDHR are further expressed and guaranteed when it is translated into law

8. In groups, define the following:
Pressure groups
Lobby groups
NGOs

9. Key Question: How can Canadian citizens voice their opinions and influence the government?
Pressure Groups

10. Types of issues pressure groups are concerned with…

11. Key Question: How can Canadian citizens voice their opinions and influence the government?
Lobby Groups

12. Key Question: How can Canadian citizens voice their opinions and influence the government?
NGO

13. Check out the following organizations, what do they do
Check out the following organizations, what do they do? What do they have in common?
OXFAM
Free the Children
Amnesty International
Somaly Mam
Unicef

14. Check out the following organizations, what do they do
Check out the following organizations, what do they do? What do they have in common?

15. What do the organizations have in common?