Week 50

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

English

To Do:

Human Rights Day

Listening A2/B1/B2/C1

Reading A2/B1/B2/C1/C2

What do humans need to live?

• What do humans need to survive?
  
• What things help us to grow physically?
  
• What things help us to succeed in life?
  

What do humans need to survive?

What things help us grow physically?

What things help us to succeed in life?

Human Rights

• All human beings, have similar basic needs (physiological & safety needs): nutritious food, healthcare, shelter, education, protection from harm and more.
• Needs are different to wants. Wants are not necessary for a person to survive, grow and develop. 
  
• Everyone of us has the right to have these needs fulfilled.  These rights are called human rights.  
• Human rights are the basic freedoms and protections that belong
  to every single one of us. They are based on principles of dignity,  equality and mutual respect – regardless of age, nationality, gender, race, beliefs and personal orientations. 

 

Human Rights

• universal – they belong to all of us; everybody in the world.
• inalienable – they cannot be taken away from us. 
• indivisible and interdependent –

they are all of equal importance and are interrelated.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)

• The UDHR was drawn up by the United Nations in the years
  immediately following World War II. 
• Every country in the world has agreed  that they are bound by the general principles expressed within the 30 articles
  of this document. 

Human Rights: Task

Have a look at the 30 articles of the UDHR and choose the right (article) that you think is the most important and choose the right (article) that you think is the least important.

Explain why you think these rights are the most/least important.

Think about:

How will the human rights benefit your / our lives?

What would happen if you / we didn't have them?

Which human right is the most important? Explain your answer briefly.

Which human right is the least important? Explain your answer briefly.

Important!

• In reality you don’t ever have to choose your human rights.
• Although they can sometimes be restricted, human rights can never be taken away from you.
• Every human right is important!

Limiting Human Rights

Human rights can be limited when:

• people are using their rights in a way that threatens another person or wider society.
  
• people are using their right to express their view and opinion in a way that it incites racial hatred or encourages crime.

If the police suspected that someone was carrying a knife, would it be ok to limit their right to privacy (article 12)  by searching them?

Absolute Human Rights

• Not every human right can be limited. Some must be upheld in all circumstances!
  
• These are called absolute rights.
•  Absolute rights cannot lawfully be interfered with, no matter how important the public interest in doing so might be.
• Absolute rights include the prohibitions on torture, inhuman treatment or punishment, and degrading treatment or punishment.

Listening & Reading

Reading/ListeningA2/B1

Reading/Listening B1/B2: 

Reading/Listening B2/C1

* Reading C2