Human Rights Flashcards
Diversity
Variety
Understanding everyone is unique and different
Discrimination
Action based on perceived or real difference
Violation of rights
Abuse/taking away of a person’s rights
Where is the Bill of Rights
Chapter 2 of the Constitution of South Africa
Basic human rights
Health: personal, access to food, clean water and sanitation, clean public services
Education: accessible to all, enough schools, qualified teachers, sufficient resources, safe education
Equality: creates policies and laws to apply equally to all
Human dignity: right to be valued+respected+treated ethically because they are human
Key issues for race, nationality, gender/sexual orientation
Race - BLM, Asian lives matter
Nationality - xenophobia
Gender/sexual orientation - LGBTQIA+
Sexual orientation
Sexual and romantic attraction
Gender identity
Our deeply felt internal experience of our own gender
Gender expression
How we show our gender through clothing, hair, behaviour
Transition
Process of changing gender expression to match gender identity
Transgender
People whose gender identity differs from the sex given at birth
Intersex
People born with sexual anatomy/hormonal pattern variations
Non-binary
People whose gender is not exclusively male or female
Human trafficking 3 elements
- Act of transportation/recruitment/transfer/harbouring
- By means of threat/force/payment/coercion/abduction/deception/fraud
- For purpose of exploitation (sexual, forced labour, slavery, removal of organs
Cause of human trafficking
Poverty Gender discrimination War Natural disasters Political instability Family breakdown Globalisation Weak laws
