Rights and Wrongs
The very first article of the UDHR begins, “All human beings are born free and equal in ______ and rights.”
Dignity
“I have a dream.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
In 2021, the Taliban regained control of this country after nearly 20 years of U.S. and NATO presence.
Afghanistan
The U.S. slogan “I can’t breathe” was chanted alongside “Hands up, don’t shoot” to protest these acts.
The first international court created to prosecute war crimes was this tribunal set up in 1945.
Nuremberg Tribunal
Article 5 of UDHR says no one shall be subjected to this cruel and degrading treatment.
Torture
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
The 2025 forced-labor investigation in Brazil focused on this major agricultural product.
Coffee
Hong Kong and Paris demonstrations often faced police deployment of this chemical irritant.
Tear gas
Pioneering physicist and the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize.
Marie Curie
Mass surveillance challenges this right.
Right to Privacy
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
In a surprising move, this 23rd Prime Minister of Canada announced he would step down, ending his tenure after over a decade in office.
Justin Trudeau
Demonstrators using sit-ins, marches, and boycotts without violence are engaging in this.
Peaceful protests
This English charter was the first to establish that a monarch was not above the law and guaranteed certain rights to subjects, such as protection from illegal imprisonment and rights to property.
Magna Carta
This type of crime includes acts like genocide, slavery, and systematic persecution (the most serious of wrongs under international law).
Crimes Against Humanity
"I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard."
Malala Yousafzai
After more than a decade of civil war, the long-ruling Assad regime finally fell in this country, ending the Assad family's decades-long hold on power.
Syria
This young woman’s death in 2022 after being detained for hijab violations by Iran’s morality police sparked nationwide protests.
Mahsa Amini
This country was the first to abolish the death penalty for all crimes, doing so in 1863.
Venezuela
The targeting of civilians and schools during the war in Ukraine violates this cornerstone of international humanitarian law.
The Geneva Conventions
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
Desmond Tutu
In 2025, the Trump administration reignited tensions with China by imposing these economic measures on imports, echoing the trade battles of his first term.
Tariffs
In 2013, this city in Brazil saw protests with hands up against police shootings and economic inequality during the World Cup preparations.
Rio de Janeiro
The first International Day of Human Rights was observed in this year.
1950