Human Rights Vocabulary 2019

A government run by religious leaders?

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Representative Democracy

Government in which the people are represented by elected leaders?

• Direct Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Absolute Monarchy

• Representative Democracy

Labor group that negotiates for improved working conditions and pay for its members?

• Social Security

• Copyright

• Union

• Petition

Basic freedoms that all people should have?

• Detainment

• Refuge

• Gaming Rights

• Human Rights

A safe place, shelter, or protection from danger?

• Refugee

• Refuge

• Detainment

• Representative Democracy

A formal request made to an official or organization?

• Human Rights

• Petition

• Refuge

• Social Security

To be taken into custody or imprisoned by the police or government?

• Persecution

• Authoritarian Government

• Detainment

• Dictatorship

Government in which a king or queen is the official head of the country, yet elected officials run the government and have the power.

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Dictatorship

• Theocracy

A person who flees to another country to escape persecution, war, or natural disaster?

• Refuge

• Refugee

• Petition

• Social Security

A government under the control of one all powerful leader.

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Direct Democracy

• Theocracy

• Dictatorship