Writing

You have been invited to the Human Rights Centre of Nottingham University in the UK. Write an outline plan of your presentation at the Centre about human rights protection in Ukraine.

Speaking tasks

You are expected to speak for about two-three minutes:

1/. What do you know about the development of human rights in pre-modern societies? Speak about the main doctrine of John Lock theory.

2/. What was the reaction of international community to egregious violation of human rights in the 1940s?

3/. What was the situation with demands for human rights in 1950s – 1970s?

4/. Speak about the preconditions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adoption?

5/. What do you know about the International Bill of Human Rights?

6/. Speak about the European protection of human rights after entering into force the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.

7/. Why did two-tier system arouse dissatisfaction. Explain this procedure.

8/. Speak about the structure of the New Court ( number of judges, official languages).

9/. Speak about the Rules of the Plenary Court and functions of the Committee.

10/. What are Chambers? What are their functions.

11/. What is the Grand Chamber? What is its function and role?

12/. Speak about inalienable and inviolable human rights of Ukrainian citizens.

13/. Speak about the right to freedom and personal inviolability in Ukraine.

14/. Speak about the right to freedom of thought and speech in Ukraine.

15/. Speak about the right to freedom association in political parties in Ukraine.

16/. Speak about the right to labor, to rest, to social protection in Ukraine.

17/. Speak about the rights of women in Ukraine.

18/. Speak about the rights of children in Ukraine.

19/. Speak about the legal rights of the Ukrainian citizens.

20/. Speak about your legal rights as a student.

SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR STUDENTS’ PROJECT WORK:

1. Human Rights History.

2. European Protection of Human Rights.

3. Procedure Before the European Court of Human Rights.

4. The Rright to a Fair Trial.

5. What Cases the European Court of Human Rights Can Deal With.

6. Human Rights in International Law.

7. Types of Human Rights.

8. Philosophical Basis of Human Rights

9. Human Rights Controversies.

10. Protection of Human Rights in Ukraine.

11. Protection of Women Rights.

12. Protection of Children Rights.

13. The Rights of Emigrants.

14. Is Islam Compatible with Human Rights?

15. Women's Rights as Human Rights.

SUPPLEMENTARY READING AND WRITING

TASK 1

Read the text “UNO Activity...”, give your appreciation of the material.

Discuss it with your classmates.

Put 10 questions in the form of a plan to the given text. Retell the text according to your plan.

Uno Activity in the Sphere of Human Rights Protection

In the period after acceptance of the Declaration of State Independence in Ukraine the active state and political activity was considerably made in the sphere of human rights. A parliamentary committee on human rights was created, there were accepted a number of acts, aimed at strengthening of legal status of citizens, legal base of protection of human rights and freedoms.

A set of nation-wide, regional and local right-defense organizations were registered, international contacts with interstate and non-government organizations were adjusting. These organizations have devoted their activity to the protection of the person in today's difficult, rigid and even severe world.

Many international pacts, agreements and conventions on human rights and freedoms were signed. There was considerably improved the integration of Ukraine in the international right-defense gear, real steps for increasing the warranties of fulfillment of international obligations in human rights sphere were made.

Much more forums are conducted with the dominant idea of protection of Ukrainian citizen's and foreigner's (which are on the territory of Ukraine) rights and freedoms.

New magazines on human rights are established, lectures are read, special courses on human rights are organized, educational programs are distributed. Much attention is paid to the educational aspect of the problem. National and international conferences and symposiums, "round tables" on urgent problems of development of institute of human rights and protection of political, social and economic rights, freedoms and legal interests of the person are carried out.

But it will be an error to overestimate the first shifts in the right-defense sphere. For example, the judicial power continues to act with the main idea of punishment, instead of protection of rights and freedoms of citizens.

Frequently jealous relations between right-defense organizations make public right defense movement weak. It is not as influential and effective as should be.

The habit to create acts in the field of human rights propagandistic by character has overloaded them by political, moral or simply ideological admonitions. As it frequently happens it is difficult to separate from them really legal statements, it sometimes makes impossible protection of rights, honor and interests of the person.