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UNIT 2. HUMAN RIGHTS
1. When children are born, they are free and each should be
treated in the same way. They have reason and conscience and
should act towards one another in a friendly manner.
2.Everyone can claim the following rights, despite
- a different sex
- a different skin colour
- speaking a different language
- thinking different things
- believing in another religion
- owning more or less
- being born in another social group
- coming from another country
It also makes no difference whether the country you live in is independent or not.
3. You have the right to live, and to live in freedom and safety.
4. Nobody has the right to treat you as his or her slave and you
should not make anyone your slave.
5. Nobody has the right to torture you.
6. You should be legally protected in the same way everywhere,
and like everyone else.
7. The law is the same for everyone; it should be applied in the
same way to all.
8. You should be able to ask for legal help when the rights your
VOCABULARY
Exercise 1. What human rights have you got? Why are they
important? Where are they written? Brainstorm human rights
vocabulary.
Exercise 2. Each student can pick one of 30 articles of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, read and translate it out
loud.
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country grants you are not respected
9. Nobody has the right to put you in prison, to keep you there,
or to send you away from your country unjustly, or without good
reason.
10. If you go on trial this should be done in public. The people
who try you should not let themselves be influenced by others.
11. You should be considered innocent until it can be proved
that you are guilty. If you are accused of a crime, you should always have the right to defend yourself. Nobody has the right to
condemn you and punish you for something you have not done.
12. You have the right to ask to be protected if someone tries to
harm your good name, enter your house, open your letters, or
bother you or your family without a good reason.
13. You have the right to come and go as you wish within your
country. You have the right to leave your country to go to another one; and you should be able to return to your country if
you want.
14. If someone hurts you, you have the right to go to another
country and ask it to protect you. You lose this right if you have
killed someone and if you, yourself, do not respect what is written here.
15. You have the right to belong to a country and nobody can
prevent you, without a good reason, from belonging to a country
if you wish.
16. As soon as a person is legally entitled, he or she has the right
to marry and have a family. In doing this, neither the colour of
your skin, the country you come from nor your religion should
be impediments. Men and women have the same rights when
they are married and also when they are separated.
Nobody should force a person to marry.
The government of your country should protect you and the
members of your family.
17. You have the right to own things and nobody has the right to
take these from you without a good reason.
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18. You have the right to profess your religion freely, to change
it, and to practise it either on your own or with other people.
19. You have the right to think what you want, to say what you
like, and nobody should forbid you from doing so. You should be
able to share your ideas also—with people from any other country.
20. You have the right to organize peaceful meetings or to take
part in meetings in a peaceful way. It is wrong to force someone
to belong to a group.
21. You have the right to take part in your country's political affairs either by belonging to the government yourself or by
choosing politicians who have the same ideas as you. Governments should be voted for regularly and voting should be secret.
You should get a vote and all votes should be equal. You also
have the same right to join the public service as anyone else.
22. The society in which you live should help you to develop and
to make the most of all the advantages (culture, work, social
welfare) which are offered to you and to all the men and women
in your country
23. You have the right to work, to be free to choose your work,
to get a salary which allows you to support your family. If a man
and a woman do the same work, they should get the same pay.
All people who work have the right to join together to defend
their interests.
24. Each work day should not be too long, since everyone has
the right to rest and should be able to take regular paid holidays.
25. You have the right to have whatever you need so that you
and your family: do not fall ill or go hungry; have clothes and a
house; and are helped if you are out of work, if you are ill, if you
are old, if your wife or husband is dead, or if you do not earn a
living for any other reason you cannot help. Mothers and their
children are entitled to special care. All children have the same
rights to be protected, whether or not their mother was married
when they were born.
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26. You have the right to go to school and everyone should go to
school. Primary schooling should be free. You should be able to
learn a profession or continue your studies as far as you wish. At
school, you should be able to develop all your talents and you
should be taught to get on with others, whatever their race, religion or the country they come from. Your parents have the right
to choose how and what you will be taught at school.
27. You have the right to share in your community's arts and sciences, and any good they do. Your works as an artist, writer, or a
scientist should be protected, and you should be able to benefit
from them.
28. So that your rights will be respected, there must be an “order” which can protect them. This “order” should be local and
worldwide.
29. You have duties towards the community within which your
personality can only fully develop. The law should guarantee
human rights. It should allow everyone to respect others and to
be respected.
30. In all parts of the world, no society, no human being, should
take it upon her or himself to act in such a way as to destroy the
rights which you have just been reading about.
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Exercise 3. Study this poster, read and translate the word
1. Palestinian prisoners continue to endure torture in Israeli jails. Currently there are nearly
5000 Palestinian political prisoners and many
of them are subjected to systematic torture. At
least 200 Palestinian prisoners have died so far
in Israeli custody due to torture and medical
negligence.
the right to be
protected against
slavery
the right to be
protected against
unfair detainment
the right to privacy
the right to freedom
of speech
2. A man was reading the Bible in public and
was arrested by the police. He was charged
with impeding an open business.
3.Kamlesh, the Dalit girl, suffered 80 % burns to
her body. She was pushed into fire by an upper
caste man when she was passing by his house.
combinations. Do it in turn.
Exercise 4. Read the stories below, watch the videos about
human rights violations and define what rights have been violated.
The right to freedom of speech was violated.
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4. A Malaysian woman, 69, an Irish woman, 57,
and a British woman, 30, were rescued from a
south London house. They were held as slaves
for about 30 years. The three women told the
police they had been beaten by the couple
suspected of keeping them as slaves.
the right to
copyright
the right to public
assembly
the right to be protected against torture
the right to be protected against discrimination
the right to
healthcare
5. Mary Surratt was convicted as a co-
conspirator with Lincoln’s killer John Wilkes
Booth. Her crime was being the owner of a
boarding house where John Wilkes Booth rented a room. Sentenced to death, she was
hanged, becoming the first woman executed
by the United States federal government.
6. Samantha Negrete, 14, said she was called
into the school administrator's office and was
asked to log into her Facebook account so they
could see a picture her friend had posted.
7. University officials placed their fellow professor on leave because of his post on Twitter
aimed at September. 16 shootings at the Navy
Yard in Washington, D. C., that left 13 dead.
8. Four Danish mayors made a parody version
of "Gangnam Style" where they talk about the
economic difficulties faced by entrepreneurs in
their cities. The record label demanded 32 000
euros for their parody video.
9. Outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the
activists in Beijing demanded the right to receive information.The police detained them
and sent to prison threatening them.
10. Vietnamese authorities forced at least
75 000 drug addicts and prostitutes into 71
overpopulated “rehab” camps, labeling the detainees at “high risk” of contracting HIV/AIDS
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but providing no treatment and forcing them
to work.
Exercise 5. Watch the video about the history of human
rights and discuss:
What is a declaration? What is the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights? Who wrote it? Who signed it? Where did they
sign it? Where is it kept?
Exercise 6. Test your knowledge on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1. When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
adopted?
а) December, 10 in 1948
b) October, 24 in 1945
c) December, 10 in 1945
2. Where was the Universal Declaration adopted?
а) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the USA
b) at the Palais de Chaillot, in Paris, France
c) at the Houses of Parliament, London, the UK
3. Who was one of the key contributors to the drafting of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
а) Winston Churchill
b) Franklin Roosevelt
c) Eleanor Roosevelt
4. Which organization initiated to create the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights?
a) Amnesty International
b) the United Nations Organization.
c) Human Rights Council
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5. What were the previous human rights documents
which served as foundation for the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights?
a) the British Charta of St. Patrick, the American Bill of
Rights, the French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
b) the British Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independ-
ence, the French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
c) the British Magna Carta, the American Bill of Rights, the
French Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
6. How many articles does the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights contain?
а) 24
b) 12
c) 30
7. Which organization specializes in the field of human
rights?
a) Amnesty International
b) Energy and Commerce Committee
c) UN Security Council
8. Name the world famous human rights activists.
a) Fidel Castro, Helmut Kohl, Jaques Chirac, John F Kennedy
b) Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Mikhail Gorbachev,
Mahatma Gandhi
c) Lionel Messi, Andre Agassi, Chuck Norris, Mike Tyson
9. When is Human Rights Day celebrated?
а) June, 1 each year
b) December, 10 each year
c) November, 20 each year
10. Why is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights important?
a) Because it protects and promotes individual rights.
b) Because it helps to stabilize international relations.
c) Because it promotes peace in the world.
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SPEAKING
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I agree with ….
I disagree with ….
I think the author is right ….
I look upon this problem from a
different standpoint ….
I am of the same opinion as
….
My opinion differs from the author’s ….
The human rights we are to discuss here at Vienna are the quintessential values through which we affirm together that we are a
single human community.
Former UN Secretary – General Boutros Boutros – Ghali,
at the World Conference on Human Rights
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in
our canoe we share the same river of life.
Chief Oren Lyons, Onandaga Nation, USA
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are
people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Exercise 7. Read the quotes on human rights that belong to
the world famous people. Say which of them you like or dislike,
who you agree with or disagree. Use the phrases from the box.
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nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys
which make it worth living, and also worth giving. And we also
discovered that there is something more hideous, more atrocious
than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.
Eve Curie, French author, speaking to the American Booksellers
Association,
New York, 9 April 1940
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our
support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep
them.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Former US President
WRITING
Exercise 8. Write a speech about the importance of equali-
ty before the law. Make your speech passionate and wellargued, read it out.
PROJECT
Teaching Human Rights through Songs and Poetry
Exercise 9. Use examples of poetry and songs that deal
with the issue of human rights. Study the list of suggested poems and songs. Choose a poem or a song, explain the motivation
and background behind the songs and poems you chose.
Questions for analysis of a poem or a song:
press most clearly?
What is the theme of the poem/song? What does it ex-
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