Human Rights

Violations against people's civil rights and liberties by governments

• Human Right Violations
• Suffrage
• Gandhi
• Civil Rights

The unjust treatment of different categories of people on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

• Servitude
• Dignity
• United Nations
• Discrimination

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Pakistani girl that suffered a head wound for going to school, and undermining the authority of the Taliban and Sharia Law. Today she advocates for the rights of girls around the world.

• Gandhi
• Mandela
• Malala
• Asylum

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Causing shame or disgrace

• Degrading
• Dignity
• Prejudice
• Genocide

Children abducted into rebel armies around the world; often given drugs to make them easier to manipulate,

• Civil Rights
• Child Soldiers
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• United Nations

To force somebody to do something

• Mandela
• Compel
• Malala
• Asylum

A shelter from danger or hardship.

• Gandhi
• Asylum
• Malala
• Compel

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A lack of freedom; forced labor;slavery

• Genocide
• Suffrage
• Servitude
• Prejudice

South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)

• Mandela
• Compel
• Gandhi
• Malala

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group through mass murder.

• Servitude
• Recourse
• Genocide
• Gandhi

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C