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Human Rights
Definitions
Censorship- 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.
Discrimination- Acts of treating groups of people, or individuals, differently based on
prejudice.
Extremism- Believing in and supporting ideas that are very far from what most people
consider correct or reasonable.
Human Rights- The basic entitlement of all human beings, afforded to them simply
because they are human.
Personal Conviction- Something a person strongly feels or believes in.
Prejudice- Pre-judging; judging people to be inferior or superior without cause.
Relative Poverty- A standard of poverty measured in relation to the standards of a
society in which a person lives, e.g. living on less than x% of the UK
average income.
Absolute Poverty- An acute state of deprivation, whereby a person cannot access the
most basic of their human needs.
Social Justice- Promoting a fair society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity.
Ensuring that everyone has equal access to provisions, equal
opportunities and rights.
Human Rights
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights issued in 1948 by United Nations
• 30 articles
• Biggest: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”
• Amnesty International- an example of an organisation that works to stop the
violation of human rights internationally.
• Social justice is the campaigning for equal rights and opportunities, despite
circumstance.
• Malala Yousafzai is an example of someone who campaigned for human rights,
even when they were in conflict with the law
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