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1
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Human Rights

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Those rights to which every human being is entitled by virtue of being born a human

2
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when was the human rights act

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1998

3
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what did the human rights act do

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guaranteed everyone in uk human rights
applies to public bodies only
could complain to a court

4
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what are amnesty interanational

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global movement encouraging petition signing
go to war zones to spread awareness
articles on human rights abuses
put pressure on government

5
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who campaigns for human rights?

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malala

oscar romero

6
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what did malala do

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campaigned for education mainly for women
got shot in the head on school bus by taliban
‘one student, one teacher, one book, one pen, can the world’

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who is oscar romero?

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archbishop of el salvador
names people who had disappeared
broadcasted truth
showed divide in el salvador