Human Rights

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As human beings we have human rights.  Here are some:

  • The right to free, high quality health care
  • The right to free, high quality education
  • The right to have good food to eat and water to drink
  • The right to feel safe
  • The right to have somewhere comfortable to live

In Nazi Germany and occupied Europe, the human rights of millions of people were violated.

The Jews, Romani and Sinti people, gay people, black people, disabled people, Jehovah Witnesses and others who did not fit the Nazi ideal were treated as sub-human.  They were stripped of their human rights and their dignity.  The lucky ones escaped while they could.

In the world today, some groups of people do not have their human rights respected.

In this section, we will consider the right to feel safe and to have somewhere comfortable to live.

For people living in times and places of war, these rights can be lost.  We will consider the experiences of refugees and look at ways of respecting human rights.


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