UNIT 2: HUMAN RIGHTS

STUDENT'S WORKSHEETS

 


SESSION 1: WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?

  By the end of the lesson you should be able to:
  • know about the human rights and list some of them
  • use the internet to do some research
  • write about the United Nations Organisation
  • realise that there are some parts in the world where these human rights are not respected
  • give examples of places where human rights are not respected
  • give examples of people you know whose rights have not been or are not respected

 

People in the world have many different legal rights. These rights are guaranteed under the law. However, in many parts of the world there are countries where basic rights simply do no exist.
To solve this problem the United Nations (UN) has agreed on a list of human rights with which we are going to deal with in the following activities.

 

EXERCISE 1

 Go to:
http://www.un.org/english/

Draw arrows to the position on the UN logo of these:

  1. olive branches (for peace)
  2. continents (for where people live)
  3. globe (for world)

EXERCISE 2

Go to:
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/unintro/unintro.asp

 

Answer the following questions:

  1. When did the United Nations come into existence?
  2. What is the purpose of the United Nations?
  3. How many members are there in this organisation?
  4. Where is the Headquarters of the United Nations?
  5. What six official languages are used?
  6. List the 4 aims of the United Nations

 

EXERCISE 3
.Human rights are rights to which every human being should be entitled. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, nobody should be made to live without these basic rights. It was written after the Second World War, when countries were determined not to have a repeat of the human atrocities carried out during the war. For example, the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews were killed.


Now go to:
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

How many articles in total are there in the Declaration of Human Rights? ……………………..

 

EXERCISE 4

Write the rights that belong to each of the following articles:

  • Article 1

 

  • Article 2

 

  • Article 4

 

  • Article 13

 

  • Article 18

 

  • Article 24

 

  • Article 25

 

  • Article 26

 

EXERCISE 5


Now go to: http://www.un.org/av/photo/subjects/30.htm

 


Write the title of the photo that illustrates each of the previous articles next to the number of the articles. Number 1 has been already done for you.

 

1

Children in Cape Town, South Africa

2

 

4

 

13

 

18

 

24

 

25

 

26

 

EXERCISE 6:


Go to: http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/2005/

 


What day in the year is HUMAN RIGHTS DAY celebrated?……………………………………

 

Discuss in pairs each of the articles and write down if there are any places in the world where these articles are not being respected. Talk about their situation so that later the teacher can gather all your opinions and write them down on the board.

 

ARTICLES

PLACE IN THE WORLD WHERE THIS ARTICLE IS NOT RESPECTED + BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS HAPPENING

1

 

2

 

4

 

13

 

18

 

24

 

25

 

26

 

EXERCISE 7 :

Human rights protect people from unfair treatment. They stop discrimination (treating certain people differently to other people).

People should not be treated unfairly or discriminated against on the GROUNDS OF:

Diagrama radial

*FAMILY STATUS: being single, married, separated, divorced, widowed, in a de facto relationship, with children

 


Think of 3 different people that you know personally and that you think have faced some kind of discrimination. Write down their situation, the grounds on which they were treated unfairly and a possible solution to their problem. An example has been done for you.

 

SITUATION

GROUNDS

POSSIBLE SOLUTION

Gerardo is from Peru. He went to view a flat to rent

 

He had problems to rent it because he is an immigrant

He should convince the owner of the flat that he is such a good payer as a person from the country