2. Human Rights
• Legal Rights ( National/ international)
• Inalienable
• Universal
• Egalitarian
3. Basic Human Rights include:
• The right to protection from torture
• Protection from compulsory labour and slavery
• The right to protection from discrimination
• Freedom of expression
• The right to marry
• The right to a fair trail
• The right to education
• The right to protection of property
4. The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights( UDHR) 1948 Paris
We are all born free and equal
Don´t discriminate
The right to life
No slavery
No torture
You have right no matter where you go
We are all equal before the law
5. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights( UDHR)
We are all innocent till proving guilty
No unfair detainment
The right to trial
The right to privacy
Freedom to move
The right to seek a safe place to live
Right to a nationality
6. Declaration of Human Rights
Marriage and family
The right to your own things
Freedom of thought
Freedom of expression
The right to public assembly
The right to democracy
Social security
Workers´rights
The right to play
Food and shelter for all
7. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights( UDHR)
The right to education
Copyright
A fair and free world
Responsability
NO ONECAN TAKE YOUR HUMAN
RIGHTS
8. Major exponents of civil and
human rights
• Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869- 1948)
• Martin Luther King (1929- 1964)
• Malcom X (1925- 1965)
• Nelson Mandela( 1918- 2013)
9. Gandhi
• influenced by the Hinduism and Jainism
• became a lawyer
• Back to India (1914): struggle 3 evils ( The British
Rule, The Hindu- Muslim disunity, The caste of
“Untouchables”)
• acts of peaceful civil disobedience
• India independence- problem between Hindus
and Muslims
10. Martin L. King
• African American pastor, activist and leader of
Africa- American Civil Right Movement.
• Became a lawyer.
• Challenged segregation and racial
discrimination
• 1959 visited India- method of nonviolent
resistance
• fought for the rights of all people including
African Americans.
11. Malcom X
• African American nationalist and religious
leader.
• 1937: criminal activitist.
• 1946: in jail he became a member of the
Nation of Islam.
• Fight for civil rights “ by any means”
• Superiority of the black race.
• 1964: non violent movement.
12. Nelson Mandela
• Civil rights leader in South Africa
• Fought against apartheid
• Non violent movement. Then, armed attacks =
sent to prision.( 27 years)
• 1994 after hard work: all races were allowed to
vote. He became president of South Africa.
• He was a strong force in keeping the calm.