Democracy
A political system in which citizens can influence the government and choose their leaders
What is democracy?
The control or removal of information that people are allowed to read, watch, hear or share.
What is censorship?
The current leader of North Korea.
Who is Kim Jong-un?
The country that Hong Kong is part of.
What is China?
The young Swedish climate activist who began protesting when she was 15.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
An election in which voters have real alternatives, nobody is pressured, and votes are counted honestly.
What is a free and fair election?
A political system in which power is concentrated in one leader or a small group.
What is an authoritarian regime?
A system in which members of the same powerful family rule a country for several generations.
What is a family dynasty?
The proposed law that could have allowed people in Hong Kong to be sent to mainland China for trial.
What is the extradition bill?
The institution outside which Greta began her individual protest.
What is the Swedish Parliament?
News organisations that are not controlled by the government.
What are independent media?
An extreme form of authoritarianism in which the government tries to control almost every part of society.
What is totalitarianism?
Biased information broadcast by the North Korean government to influence people and create support for its leader.
What is propaganda?
The freedom that allows people to meet publicly and demonstrate together.
What is freedom of assembly?
A form of protest in which students stay away from school to demand change.
What is a school strike?
Political parties or groups that disagree with the government and try to replace it.
What is the political opposition?
A system in which the armed forces control the government.
What is a military dictatorship?
This type of media does not exist in North Korea because television, radio and newspapers are controlled by the state.
What are independent media?
The freedoms and protections that the Hong Kong protesters were fighting to defend.
What are democratic rights?
The ability to affect other people, public discussions or decisions without having the authority to make laws.
What is influence?
Courts, parliaments and other organisations that limit government power and protect democracy.
What are democratic institutions?
A political system in which religion and religious leaders have a central or controlling role.
What is a theocracy?
A method used to prevent protest by threatening to punish a person’s family or other members of their group.
What is collective punishment?
An organised public action in which people express disagreement or demand change without necessarily trying to replace the entire political system.
What is a protest?
The documentary in which eight children travel across Europe in a yellow school bus and meet powerful business leaders.
What is Future Council?