Human Rights and Changes

an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security

• World Health Organization
• United Nations
• European Union
• NATO

investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community

• International Criminal Court (ICC)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• World Health Organization (WHO)
• United Nations Security Council (UNSC)

a system of institutionalized racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa

• Apartheid
• Desegregation
• Equality
• Integration

a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government

• Election
• Rebellion

• Peaceful transition
• Coup d'état

an act of violent or open resistance to an established government; the action or process of resisting authority

• Submission
• Rebellion
• Obedience
• Compliance

the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument

• compliance
• acceptance
• resistance
• agreement

a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system

• restoration
• rebellion
• evolution
• revolution

a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition

• Medievalism
• Dark Ages
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment

an agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by giving up some individual freedom for state protection

• Community service
• Personal contract
• Individual agreement
• Social contract

the way things are at a given time; the way things have traditionally been done

• Revolution
• Innovation
• Status quo
• Change