Write for Rights

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• Studiejaar 1

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To Do:

• Write for Rights:

- Introduction
- What do humans need to live?
- What are human rights?

-Write a letter, change a life.

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Write for Rights

Write for Rights

• Amnesty’s global campaign and the world’s biggest human rights event
• The people you are helping want to make the world a better place. They are demanding justice, and human rights for all. Many have been imprisoned, disappeared and attacked.
• Every year, millions of individuals write letters, sign petitions and organise events.
• Every action counts, and these people need your help. 

What do humans need to live?

Imagine you are David Attenborough.

Describe what human beings need to live  to an alien.

• 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. 

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!

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.

Task

1. Look up information about the people we're writing for this year. 

Who are they? What have they done? What are they fighting for? What happened to them?  What shocks you about the case? 

2. Use the information to write your letter.