UDHR Basics
This document, adopted in 1948, outlines fundamental human rights for all people
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)?
The word "Apartheid" means this in Afrikaans
What is "apartness"?
Under apartheid, people of different races were forbidden from having these types of relationships.
What are mixed or interracial relationships?
The international campaigns that led campaigns against apartheid.
What is the United Nations?
The ethnic minority group facing persecution in Myanmar.
Who are the Rohingya?
The organization that adopted the UDHR in 1948
What is the United Nations?
The years during which apartheid existed in South Africa.
What is 1948-1994?
Non-white South Africans were denied this major democratic right.
What is the right to vote?
In 1977, the UN implemented this type of restriction, preventing weapons from being sold to South Africa.
What is an arms embargo?
The neighbouring country that many Rohingya refugees fled to.
What is Bangladesh?
The exact date the UDHR was adopted
What is December 10, 1948?
This 1950 law classified South Africans into racial groups such as white, black, coloured and Indian
What is the Population Registration Act?
Areas where non-white South Africans were forced to live.
What are homelands (Bantustans)?
In 1973, the UN declared apartheid to be this type of crime.
What is a crime against humanity?
The year massive violence caused hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee Myanmar.
What is 2017?
This annual international day commemorates the adoption of the UDHR
What is Human Rights Day?
Documents that Black South Africans were forced to carry showing where they could travel or work
What are pass books?
The Dutch-speaking settlers developed this language.
What is Afrikaans?
The UN created this committee in 1962 to monitor apartheid and encourage global action.
What is the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid?
The UN accused the Myanmar government of committing this major crime.
What is genocide?
The main purpose of creating the UDHR after World War II
What is to prevent future atrocities and guarantee basic human rights for everyone?
The main goal of apartheid laws in South Africa.
What is to maintain white minority power and racial segregation?
Apartheid laws controlled nearly every part of this asppect of people's life?
What is their day-to-day life (education, jobs, housing, movement)?
Global boycotts promoted by the UN targeted sports, culture, and this third sector.
What is education?
The international court hearing the case against Myanmar brought by The Gambia
What is the International Court of Justice?