Theme 4 Issues of Human Rights

Question 1

Censorship

Answer 1

The practice of suppressing and limiting access to materials considered obscene, offensive, or a threat to security.
-People may also be restricted in their speech by censorship laws.

Question 2

Discrimination

Answer 2

Acts of treating groups of people or individuals differently based prejudice

Question 3

Extremisum

Answer 3

Believing in and supporting ideas that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable.

Question 4

Human Rights

Answer 4

The basic entitlements all human beings, afforded to them simply because they are human.
-E.g all people should receive an education

Question 5

Personal Conviction

Answer 5

Something a person strongly feels or believes in.

Question 6

Prejudice

Answer 6

Pre-Judging, judging people to be inferior or superior without cause.

Question 7

Relative poverty

Answer 7

A standard of poverty measures in relation to the standards of a society in which a person lives.
-E.g, Living on less than X percent of the average income in the UK.

Question 8

Absolute poverty

Answer 8

An acute state of deprivation, whereby a person cannot access the most basic of human needs.

Question 9

Social Injustice

Answer 9

Promoting a fair society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity. Ensuring that everyone has equal access to provisions, opportunities, and rights.

Question 10

Name an organisation that aims to support human rights all over the world

Answer 10

Ammnesty international

Question 11

What does Amnesty International do to support and maintain human rights? (5 Points)

Answer 11

• Forming protest marches
  -Writing letters to governments campaigning for justice.
• Raising awareness, through the media, of people who have had their rights abused
• Running school programs to educate the next generation.
• annual report on the death penalty.

Question 12

Christian POV on human rights and social injustice
(9) 4/5 paragraphs

Answer 12

• Dignity of human life- Universal Declaration of Human Rights reflects the main Christian ideologies and principles.
• Freedom from discrimination
  -Right to life
• Right to Equality
  -All reflected and have bible Quotes
• All humans are created in the “imago dei,” without discrimination, and no individual should be mistreated. (Mistreating God)

-Jesus “the light of the world” whom the Christians should follow, WWJD.
- Jesus taught AGAPE
All should attempt AGAPE (love thy neighbour)

-Christians should be willing to suffer inconvenience, discomfort, and even death to benefit others without expecting anything in return.

Question 13

3 Quotes supporting the Christian principle of freedom from discrimination. (Social injustice)

Answer 13

“All are equal in the eyes of God”
All humans were created “Imago dei”
“So god created mankind in his own image, in the image of God”

Question 14

Imago Dei meaning

Answer 14

In the image of God

Question 15

Quote, Christian principle of Right to life (Social injustice)

Answer 15

“thou shall not kill”

Question 16

Quote, Christian principle of Right to equality. (Social injustice)

Answer 16

“neither jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ.”

Question 17

Who was malala

Answer 17

Campaigned for her personal conviction that girls should be educated.
- Taliban in the SWAT region banned girls from going to school - Malala it was against article 26 of the human rights. “Everyone has the right to education”

Question 18

What did malala do

Answer 18

• At 11 she began blogging the details of the prevention of education and her views on it she wrote under a sudinim to the bbc at 12 years old.
• In Islam “it is your right and duty to get an education”
• 9 th October survived an assassination attempt - when a gunman boarded the bus asked for her name at shot her 3 times.
• She continued to campaign for social injustices and in 2014 she won the Nobel peace prize and became the youngest ever to.

-she received an education from her father and continued to go to school via a stealthy route

Question 19

What was masalas personal convion q

Answer 19

To get an education

Question 20

who was Oscar romeo

Answer 20

• Arch bushiop in elsavidoe durin 1830-1980.

Question 21

what was happening in wl savitor 1930-1980

Answer 21

ruled bu military dictators and corrupt, authoritarian.
Major human rights abused
- Poverty lack of vote
violence and forced conversation of land

Question 21

WHat did ocar romero do origanaly

Answer 21

• catholic preist people were deply religios and oftern came to mass he origaqnaly avoidd getting involved with the politics and taught his followers peace and didn’t speak out against the violence even during massacres and unfair elections.

Question 21

what sparked ocars change

Answer 21

1977- became the archbisiop of El salvator.
First job was to bury the bodys who were murdered in protests.

Question 24

What did he do then

Answer 24

- Instructed all preists to offer sanctuary to all thoses who were threatened by troops. - He punliclu prayed for a long time beside the body of his best friends and 2 others before burying them with out gov permission - criminal offence. - Excomunicated the muderers - cancelled all church services on sunday exept for a mass that he conducted outdoors infrount of 10,000 people. - Against gov laws of large gatherings - spoke out on live broodcasts against the goverment and called army soildiers that worked for them assassins. - after resiving many death threats he was killed 24 th march 1980.

Question 25

Oscar romero quote

Answer 25

The ones who have a voice must speak for the voicless.