Definitions Flashcards

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Amnesty International

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This is the world’s leading human rights organisation, campaigning against injustice and inequality everywhere.

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Universal
Declaration of Human Rights

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This is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives from all over the world, this document was signed and agreed by the UN on 10 December 1948. It sets out fundamental human rights to be universally protected

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Protest

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Protest most commonly means a public show of disapproval of or opposition to something. Protests are often held against things like a nation’s involvement in a war or specific government policies or forms of injustice. … Protest is often used as a verb meaning to participate in a protest

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To bear witness

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If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened. E.g. Many of these poems bear witness to his years spent in India and china

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