- •A short history of the human rights movement
- •Early Political, Religious, and Philosophical Sources
- •Active vocabulary
- •Comprehension check
- •I. Answer the questions:
- •Fill in the gaps with the suitable prepositions given below.
- •III. Match the following terms and verbs with their vocabulary definitions
- •Slavery a. The state or fact of being a farm worker who has to work for
- •IV. Fill in the gaps using the combinations in the right hand column
- •V. Look at the dictionary the following words and use them in the sentences below:
IV. Fill in the gaps using the combinations in the right hand column
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нарушения прав человека
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Great Charter established the right of widows who owned property to choose not to remarry, and established principles of due process and equality before the law. |
узники совести |
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Вопросы, вызывающие обеспокоенность в области защиты прав чел. |
Regional human rights watchdog groups often operated under extremely difficult conditions, especially those in the Soviet Block
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основополагающий принцип |
Amnesty International does not take positions on many issues which many people view as human rights concerns (such as abortion) and does not endorse or criticize any form of government.
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законный порядок |
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сопротивление без применения насильственных методов |
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группы наблюдателей за правами человека |
Gandhi and King, in particular, developed their ideas on non-violent resistance to unethical government actions from this work. |
- военные перевороты |
V. Look at the dictionary the following words and use them in the sentences below:
appeal ; right ; freedom; crime; belief; law
After this report was forbidden journalists claimed that they were being denied their freedoms…
Actions of this sort have lost their appeal… for me
Every shareholder will receive an invitation to the meeting as of right…
According to the power to do, say ,think, or write whatever one wants President Roosevelt spoke of two of the four freedoms… in 1941.
She committed the unforgivable crime of voting against her own partying the defense debate
The governments then pointed at bombings, strike-related violence, and growth in violent crime and social disorder as reasons why a stern approach toward dissent was necessary.
To release the these people they had to receive a personal appeal… of the President on behalf of the‘’ prisoner of consience’’.
belief… is an idea which is considered true, often one which is a part of a system of ideas
Neither the emancipated American slaves nor the freed Russian serfs saw any real degree of freedom or basic rights for many more decades, however.
In first half of the twentieth century, though, human rights activism remained largely tied to political and religious groups and beliefs.
He took the law… into his hands and shot the person expressing the ideas of non-violent resistance.
The people there are fighting to gain their.freedom from foreign control.
This document set forth a simple plan of action, calling for strictly impartial, non-partisan appeals to be made on behalf of these prisoners and any who, like them, had been imprisoned for peacefully expressed beliefs.