Human Rights Flashcards

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United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

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a statement adopted by the United Nations and all their signatures, including the UK, to protect human beings in special regards

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Article 1

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right to equality

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Article 2

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right to freedom from discrimination

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Article 3

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right to life, liberty and personal security

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Article 4

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right to freedom from slavery

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Article 5

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right to freedom from torture and degrading treatment

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Article 6

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right to recognition as a person before the law

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Article 7

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right to equality before the law

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Article 8

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right to remedy a competent tribunal

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Article 9

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right to freedom from arbitrary arrest and exhile

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Article 10

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right to a fair public hearing

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Article 11

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right to be considered innocent until proven guilty

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Article 12

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right to freedom from interference in privacy, family, home and correspondence

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Article 13

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right to free movement in and out of the country

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Article 14

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right to asylum in other countries and the freedom to change it

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Article 15

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right to a nationality and the freedom to change it

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Article 16

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right to marry and have a family

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Article 17

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right to own property

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Article 18

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right to free belief and opinion

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Article 19

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right to freedom of opinion and information

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Article 20

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right to peaceful assembly and association

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Article 21

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right to participate in government and free elections

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Article 22

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right to social security

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Article 23

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right to desirable work and to join trade unions

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right to rest and leisure
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Article 25
right to an adequate living standard
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Article 26
right to an education
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Article 27
right to participate in the cultural life of the community
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Article 28
right to a social order that articulates this document
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Article 29
right to community duties essential to free and full development
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Article 30
right to freedom from state interference in the above interference
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1928
when men and women got equal voting rights
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1970
when the Equal Pay Act was passed
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1975
when the Sex Discrimination Act was passed
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2010
when the Equality Act 2010 was passed
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Absolute Poverty
where people are living on less than a pound a day, used to talk about poverty in other countries
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Ageism
discrimination against someone based on their age
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Apartheid
literally apart hood, laws in South Africa that kept various groups separated based on appearance, ancestry, socioeconomic lifestyle and cultural lifestyle
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Charity
voluntarily giving time or money to help people in need
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Community
a group of people who share a characteristic, eg Jewish community, Hispanic community
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Compassion
loving kindness, attitude to help others simply bcause it is right to help
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Desmond Tutu
a Christian who fought against Apartheid and racial discrimination
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Discrimination
actions that come from prejudice
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Equality
belief that everyone is of the same value and worth
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Exploitation
the action of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work
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Fair Pay
pay that is appropriate for work
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Freedom of Religious Expression
freedom to follow the practices of whatever religion you choose
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Gender
being male or female
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Harmony
living together in society without argument or conflict
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Human Rights
the rights a person should be entitled to purely because they are human, eg education, fair treatment, etc
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Human Rights Act
UK law that protects the rights of individuals and allows a challenge when those rights are breached
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Interest
money paid back on the original loan aside from original amount transferred
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Justice
getting fairness, getting redress for unfairness
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Loan
amount of money borrowed from a lender, usually paid back in installments with interest, where excessive, the interest charged on the loan is extremely high, often unfairly so
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Loan Sharks
a money lender who charges incredibly high rates of interest, typically under illegal conditions
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People Trafficking
illegal trading of humans for slavery, eg for sex and/or work
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Positive Action
Putting things in place to help overcome disadvantage, or to meet the needs of protected groups, in order to help them fully participate.
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Positive Discrimination
favouring a person or group with a protected characteristic, is illegal in the UK
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Poverty
having less than the basic needs of life, so that day-to-day living is a struggle
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Poverty Trap
being unable to break out of poverty
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Prejudice
prejudging someone someone based on characteristics they have, eg ethnicity, gender
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Protected Characteristic
age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy/maternity
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Racial Discrimination
acting on prejudices against someone based on their ethnicity or skin colour
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Racial Prejudice
negative thoughts, feelings or beliefs about a person or group based on their ethnicity or skin colour
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Racism
prejudice against someone based on their ethnicity and/or colour
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Rana Plaza Disaster
the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh that led to the deaths of 1134 workers
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Relative Poverty
where you are relatively poor compared to others
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Religious Freedom
freedom to follow whichever religion you choose, or to not follow a religion
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Responsibility
the duty to work and earn money for oneself
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Rights
what a person is entitled, eg an education
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Social Justice
bringing justice to society so that all within a society have the same opportunities and can take advantage of them, includes projects to improve the life situation of those at the poorest end of society, eg by educational support
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Stewardship
duty to look after the world given by God to humans, which extends to looking after all life, including other humans
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Testimony of Equality
a Quaker testimony allowing women to have leadership in Church
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Tolerance
accepting of a difference rather that seeing a problem
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UK Minimum Wage
£9.18 per hour
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Wealth
money and possessions a person has, usually in such quantities as to give a very comfortable lifestyle