Rights Movements

Why are human rights necessary and important?

• To save lives.

• To give us freedom.

• To protect everyone.

• All of the above

Which is not a right?

• To have food and water

• To have new sneakers

• To have freedom

• To have an education

Which situation has broken someone's rights?

• A young girl is not allowed a new dress

• A little boy is sent to bed early for misbehaving

• A 6 year old boy is not allowed to go swimming

• A country's government does not allow girls to go to school

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

• Gandhi

• Mandela

• Malala

• Asylum

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

This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.

• Proliferate
• Dignity
• Human Rights Violations
• Civil Rights

A preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

• Genocide
• Degrading
• Prejudice
• Recourse

Indian nationalist and spiritual leader who developed the practice of nonviolent disobedience that forced Great Britain to grant independence to India (1947). He was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic.

• Genocide
• Malala
• Mandela
• Gandhi

A South African policy of complete legal separation of the races, including the banning of all social contacts between the black and whites.

• Apartheid
• Mandela
• Degrading
• Gandhi

What human right does this picture show?

• Right to asylum

• Right to democracy

• Right to Leisure

• Right to Free Expression