5.4 Mensenrechten

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5.4 Human Rights

What comes to mind when you hear the term Human Rights

Welke mensenrechten ken je? Het zijn er 30!

After WOII

1.  Punish people who were responsible for war crimes

2. Reniewed interest in human rights

1. Punish people who were responsible for war crimes

* Special court -> tribunal

* Nuremberg tribunal WOII

* 24 Nazi leaders

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Otto Skorzeny

Otto Skorzeny

* Nurenberg trial

* Acquitted of war crimes

* Captive

* 1948 escaped

* 1975 died of cancer

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Ilse Koch

Ilse Koch

* The witch form Buchenwald

* Proces Dachau

* Lifelong

* Released after 4 years -> evidence

* 1951  convicted Murder -> lifelong

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2. Renewed interest in human rights

* Rights that appllied to everyone on Earth

* United Nations

* 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights

* Possible to take action if human rights have been violated

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The declaration

* Possible to take action if human rights have been violated

* Practice?

- Own legal system

- Not obliged to cooperate with international courts

- Different opinions about human rights

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Which human right do you find most important?

Which right do you want to add to the list?

Make your own Universal Declaration of Human Rights

* Write down 5 rights you think must be in the Declaration of Human Rights