Learning intention To define rights and freedoms and gain an understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights What are rights and freedoms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ID: 289964
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Freedom & rightsSlide2
Learning intention:
To define rights and freedoms and gain an understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What
are rights and freedoms?the Universal Declaration of Human RightsSlide3
How did the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights come about?
Why
was it important?
Inquiry Questions about rights & freedomsSlide4
What were the key features and achievements of the US Civil Rights movement?
Did these influence the struggles of the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders?
Inquiry questionsSlide5
What have been the main aims, methods and events in the struggle for rights and freedoms by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders?
Inquiry questionsSlide6
Who have been significant individuals and groups in the struggle for the rights and freedoms of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders?
Inquiry questionsSlide7
What do you know about the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights?
What rights and freedoms have Indigenous Australians fought for since 1945:?
How have the struggles of Indigenous Australians been similar to, and different from, other fights for civil rights around the world?
What do you know?Slide8
Freedom
Freedom is a word we all know but can take for granted.
What is freedom?Slide9
Freedom is...
(or is not?)
Having your own taste in music?Slide10
Freedom is...
(or is not?)
Being told you can’t choose your own religion?Slide11
Freedom is...
(or is not?)
Choosing a career that interests you?Slide12
Freedom is...
(or is not?)
Saying what you think?Slide13
Freedom is...
(or is not?)
Being
refused an education?Slide14
Freedom is...
(or is not?)
Choosing your own relationship?Slide15
Freedom is...
(or is not?)
Having your house taken away?Slide16
Human rights
The freedoms that you enjoy are all
human rights
! Human rights are the basic freedoms and
rights
that belong to
every
human being
!Slide17
So why do we need
human rights?Slide18
So why do we need human rights?Slide19
Protecting people
During the holocaust about six million European Jews were killed - about two-thirds of the population of European Jews.
Millions more were murdered included Romani gypsies, homosexuals, people with disabilities and other political and religious opponents.
Total number of Holocaust victims is between 11 million and 17 million people.Human rights help to make sure the Government does not misuse their power and harm their citizens.Slide20
All
human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights
True or false?Slide21
We are all born
free and equal in dignity and
rights
trueSlide22
After the atrocities of WW2, the United Nations General Assembly created an international treaty called
The Universal Declaration of Human RightsSlide23
Many people take their rights and freedoms for granted.
Others are denied these rights.
Some have to fight for them.
Groups have struggled to win civil rights.In Australia, people have had to fight for their rights and for social justice too.Slide24
When the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed in 1948 that ‘all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights’, it
signalled
its support for the rights and freedoms of oppressed groups throughout the world.
United nations universal declaration of human rightsSlide25
Two such groups that already had long histories of struggle were African Americans and Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. At the same time as the US Civil Rights movement was gathering force
America and AustraliaSlide26
in the 1950s and 1960s, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples renewed their efforts to overcome generations of dispossession and inequality. Slide27
Although much has been achieved, the struggles for rights and freedoms by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have continued into the twenty-first century. Slide28
With the creation of the United Nations after WW2, the international community vowed the world would never again suffer the atrocities caused by that conflict.
The United Nations General Assembly convened in 1946 and began drafting an international agreement that would
recognise
basic human rights and would declare that each of us is ‘born free and equal’.In Paris 1948. the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was formally adopted.Slide29
What are the Charters obligations?
What do you think?
Declaration of of human rightsSlide30
To preserve peace and eliminate war
To remove the causes of conflict by encouraging economic, social, educational, scientific and cultural progress throughout the world, especially in under-developed countries
To safeguard the rights of all individual human beings, and the rights of peoples and nations
Declaration of human rightsSlide31
https://
www.youtube.com
/watch?v=aiFIu_z4dM8
The universal declarationSlide32
Hand out
Resource & activity sheetSlide33
There are certain principles that were behind the creation of these 30 rights
.
Some of these principles relate to civil and political rights which defend the fundamental right to life, and states that no one can be tortured, enslaved, arbitrarily imprisoned, made to do forced labour, or be restricted from such basic freedoms as movement, expression and association. Such principles are stated in negative terms such as ‘freedom from’ (discrimination, torture
etc).
Certain principles (hand out)Slide34
Other principles relate to economic, social and cultural rights, which assure people of their rights to basic standards of life.
These
rights are founded on a belief that we can enjoy our rights, freedoms and economic justice all at the same time. Economic, social and cultural rights are often stated in positive terms such as ‘right to’ (life, education
etc).Certain principalsSlide35
The idea that groups of people had certain kinds of rights and freedoms dates back to ancient times.
However
, with the coming of the modern age, the idea of universal human rights and freedoms began to evolve.
Recap of lessonSlide36
During the late eighteenth century, Enlightenment thinkers argued that, as human beings, all people had the same basic rights to equality and freedom, no matter what their place in
society
recapSlide37
On 10 December 1948, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly
.
December 10 is celebrated as Human Rights Day around the world. The declaration is written in more than 360 languages and is used by various UN organisations to help people and countries understand what the international community has determined as the human rights all people are entitled to.
recapSlide38
Read Page 117 –
Copy the timeline into your book
timelineSlide39
Answer Questions
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