Vocabulary 8/9 Decolonization + Human Rights

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non-violence

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Not causing harm to others. The use of peaceful means to bring about a change and willing to suffer without retaliation.

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Not causing harm to others. The use of peaceful means to bring about a change and willing to suffer without retaliation.

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non-violence

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civil disobedience

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Refusal to obey or intentionally violate certain laws as a peaceful form of protest with the goal of changing laws that are morally wrong.

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Refusal to obey or intentionally violate certain laws as a peaceful form of protest with the goal of changing laws that are morally wrong.

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civil disobedience

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Partition of India

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The 1947 division of British India into the independent countries of Muslim-majority Pakistan and Bangladesh and Hindu-majority India, after almost two hundred years of British rule.

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The 1947 division of British India into the independent countries of Muslim-majority Pakistan and Bangladesh and Hindu-majority India, after almost two hundred years of British rule

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partition of India

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apartheid

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a legalized system of segregation or discrimination based on race that existed in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s in which one racial group was deprived of equal rights and severely disadvantaged

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a legalized system of segregation or discrimination based on race that existed in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s in which one racial group was deprived of equal rights and severely disadvantaged

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apartheid

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boycott

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a collective action to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a punishment or protest and as a way of expressing strong disapproval.

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a collective action to stop buying or using the goods or services of a certain company or country as a punishment or protest and as a way of expressing strong disapproval.

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boycott