A+Rough+Road+to+Human+Rights

=Due: Thursday, February 21st=

=Human Rights Definition:=

A member of the Homo sapiens species; a man, woman or child; a person.
 * Human: **//noun//

Things to which you are entitled or allowed; freedoms that are guaranteed.
 * Rights: ** //noun//

The rights you have simply because you are human.
 * Human Rights: ** //noun//

If you were to ask people in the street, “[|What are human rights?]” you would get many different answers. They would tell you the rights they know about, but very few people know all their rights.

Human rights are based on the principle of respect for the individual. Their fundamental assumption is that each person is a moral and rational being who deserves to be treated with dignity. They are called human rights because they are universal. Whereas nations or specialized groups enjoy specific rights that apply only to them, human rights are the rights to which everyone is entitled—no matter who they are or where they live—simply because they are alive.

In ages past, there were no human rights. Then the idea emerged that people should have certain freedoms. And that idea, in the wake of World War II, resulted finally in the document called the [|Universal Declaration of Human Rights] and the thirty rights to which all people are entitled.

[This text can be found on the United for Human Rights website]

"Definition of Human Rights Video | What Are Human Rights? : United for Human Rights." //Universal Declaration of Human Rights Campaign: What are Human Rights? Definition//. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2013. .

=Building Block Template:=

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 * Side 1: Image, title, & date(s) [clear and visible]
 * Side 2: What were the causes?
 * Side 3: Who was involved (i.e., countries, groups, people, etc...)?
 * Side 4: How did this event create change and/or conflict? [Short Term]
 * Side 5: Why is this topic important (i.e., did it pave the way for another event?) [Long Term]
 * Side 6: Works Cited

=Human Rights "Building Blocks"=


 * 1) Code of Hammurabi
 * 2) 10 Commandments
 * 3) Cyrus the Great
 * 4) Confucius
 * 5) Roman Republic
 * 6) Pericles in Ancient Greece
 * 7) 12 Tables
 * 8) Four Vedas
 * 9) Natural Law
 * 10) Muhammad’s teaching of religious tolerance, charity, and equality in the Qur’an
 * 11) Magna Carta
 * 12) The Iroquois Constitution
 * 13) British Bill of Rights
 * 14) Montesquieu’s “Spirit of the Laws”
 * 15) Rousseau’s “The Social Contract”
 * 16) Declaration of Independence’s idea “all men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”
 * 17) Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
 * 18) Declaration of the Rights of Women
 * 19) U.S. Bill of Rights
 * 20) Mary Wollstonecraft’s “Vindication of the Rights of Women”
 * 21) Indian Removal Act
 * 22) Treaty of Nanking
 * 23) Dred Scott v. Sanford
 * 24) Emancipation Proclamation
 * 25) 13th Amendment
 * 26) 14th Amendment
 * 27) 15th Amendment
 * 28) The Berlin Conference
 * 29) Dreyfus Affair
 * 30) Plessy v. Ferguson
 * 31) Armenian Genocide
 * 32) Aboriginal Ordinance
 * 33) The Pan-African Congress
 * 34) 19th Amendment
 * 35) Snyder Act
 * 36) Russian Purges
 * 37) The Crimes of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Regime
 * 38) Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”
 * 39) Executive Order 9066
 * 40) Mahatma Gandhi protest
 * 41) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 * 42) Apartheid in South Africa
 * 43) Brown v. Board of Education
 * 44) Omnibus Civil Rights Bill
 * 45) Nelson Mandela’s conviction and sentence to life in prison by the South African Government for protesting the apartheid
 * 46) The Stonewall Riots
 * 47) Title IX
 * 48) Roe v. Wade
 * 49) The Americans with disabilities act
 * 50) Ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * 51) Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue
 * 52) Genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan

=Suggested Resource:=

[] http://www.humanrights.com/what-are-human-rights