This document discusses several important human rights issues and challenges that still exist around the world. It covers the origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and then discusses threats to democracy, ongoing issues of racism and discrimination, challenges to women's rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, children's rights, and the complex relationship between large corporations and human rights. While human rights principles and agreements have been established, the document notes that serious human rights violations and issues still occur.

1. HUMAN RIGHTS :
ISSUES &
CHALLENGES

2. • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights came
into existence shortly after the Second World War,
reflecting the wishes of people at the time to try and
never see such a horror again.

3. • This section attempts to highlight some of the gross
human rights violations, racial hatred, the effects of
media suppression, distortion and bias, that still
occur around the world — both near and far from
home.

4. Democracy
• Democracy is a valued principle, so much so that
some people have sacrificed their lives to fight for it.
While no system is perfect, it seems that democracy
is once again under assault.
• What are the challenges posed in a democratic
system and are established safeguards helping to
strengthen democracy or are their forces successfully
weakening it?

5. Racism
• Racism is the belief that characteristics and abilities
can be attributed to people simply on the basis of
their race and that some racial groups are superior to
others.
• Racism and discrimination have been used as
powerful weapons encouraging fear or hatred of
others in times of conflict and war, and even during
economic downturns. This article explores racism
from around the world

6. Women’s Rights
• Women’s rights around the world is an important indicator to understand
global well-being.
• A major global women’s rights treaty was ratified by the majority of the
world’s nations a few decades ago.
• Yet, despite many successes in empowering women, numerous issues still exist
in all areas of life, ranging from the cultural, political to the economic.
• For example, women often work more than men, yet are paid less; gender
discrimination affects girls and women throughout their lifetime; and women
and girls are often are the ones that suffer the most poverty.
• Gender equality furthers the cause of child survival and development for all
of society, so the importance of women’s rights and gender equality should
not be underestimated.

7. HELPLESS WOMEN

8. WOMEN

9. Rights of Indigenous People
• There are approximately 370 million indigenous
people spanning 70 countries, worldwide.
• Historically they have often been dispossessed of
their lands, or in the centre of conflict for access to
valuable resources because of where they live, or, in
yet other cases, struggling to live the way they would
like. Indeed, indigenous people are often amongst the
most disadvantaged people in the world.

10. Rights of the Child
RIGHT TO LIFE

12. HOMELESS

13. Caste indication on face

14. Corporations and Human Rights
• Large, transnational corporations are becoming increasingly powerful.
• As profits are naturally the most important goal, damaging results can arise,
such as violation of human rights, lobbying for and participating in
manipulated international agreements, environmental damage, child labour,
driving towards cheaper and cheaper labour, and so on.
• Multinational corporations claim that their involvement in foreign countries
is actually a constructive engagement as it can promote human rights in
non-democratic nations. However, it seems that that is more of a
convenient excuse to continue exploitative practices.

16. • THANK YOU