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 How did the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights come about ID: 648169
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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
All
human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights
True or false?Slide9
After the atrocities of WW2, the United Nations General Assembly created an international treaty called
The Universal Declaration of Human RightsSlide10
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.Slide11
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 rightsSlide12
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 AustraliaSlide13
in the 1950s and 1960s, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples renewed their efforts to overcome generations of dispossession and inequality. Slide14
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. Slide15
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.Slide16
What are the Charters obligations?
What do you think?
Declaration of of human rightsSlide17
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 rightsSlide18
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The universal declarationSlide19
Hand out
Resource & activity sheetSlide20
There are certain principles that were behind the creation of these 30 rights
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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)Slide21
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 principalsSlide22
As
a class, decide which articles apply to each of the following principles
:
a. Some of the rights are civil and political rights.Which articles would fit this category? b. Some of the rights are economic, social and cultural rights.Which articles would fit this category?
c
. Some of the rights are community obligations for the rights to be able to exist
.
Which articles would fit this category?
Class discussion – need a scribeSlide23
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 lessonSlide24
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
recapSlide25
On 10 December 1948, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly
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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.
recapSlide26
Read Page 117 –
Copy the timeline into your book
timelineSlide27
Answer Questions
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