I Declare! (that human beings universally have rights)
This historical event in Germany inspired the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
What was the Holocaust?
What is freedom of speech?
Augusto Pinochet, Deng Xiaoping, and Slobodan Milosevic are examples of individuals who did what to human rights?
What is 'violate'?
Nelson Mandela's use of civil disobedience and nonviolence is most similar to this Indian independence leader.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This UN document was created as a reaction to human rights violations.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The Holocaust, which inspired the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is classified as this type of mass murder.
What is genocide?
Executions, like those that occured in Cambodia at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, violate this human right.
What is the right to life?
In Cambodia, this group of communists violated human rights by executing political enemies.
Who are the Khmer Rouge?
Nelson Mandela sought to end this policy of segregation.
What is apartheid?
This group of moms marched around a plaza in Argentina for years in protest of oppressive dictatorship.
Who are the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created by this international organization.
Belgium imperialized Rwanda and the Congo, the latter of which experienced violations of this human right when its people were enslaved for rubber production.
What is freedom/liberty?
In Rwanda, this imperial power manipulated the Tutsi and Hutu, later resulting in genocide.
Who is Belgium?
Nelson Mandela was leader of this organization in Africa.
What is the African National Congress?
Many individuals and groups use this method of Gandhi's to protest human rights violations.
What is nonviolence?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights posits that all human beings are born with rights that cannot be taken away, which is similar to this other (much earlier) time period during which philosophers claimed that people had natural rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
Imperialism, like that in Sudan, often included the enslavement of native peoples, which violates this human right.
What is liberty/freedom?
Human rights violations in the Darfur region of Sudan can be traced back to this time period when Britain and Egypt controlled Sudan for its resources and labor.
What is imperialism?
This South African President ended Apartheid in 1990.
Who is F.W. de Klerk?
This Catholic nun created charities to help people all around the world.
Who is Mother Teresa?
This wife to FDR held a leading role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (1/2 points for just the last name).
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Deng Xiaoping's Tiananmen Square Massacre violated the students' right to this.
What is speech/expression of opinion?
Deng Xiaoping ordered his troops to fire on the students protesting for democracy in this Square.
What is Tiananmen?
Nelson Mandela established this Commission to help South Africans retell their experience with apartheid and heal together.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
This leader of Myanmar has been both awarded for her work in human rights and criticized for her silence during the Rohingya genocide.
Who is Aung San Suu Kyi?