Theme 4 Issues of Human Rights Flashcards
Censorship
The practice of suppressing and limiting access to materials considered obscene, offensive, or a threat to security.
-People may also be restricted in their speech by censorship laws.
Discrimination
Acts of treating groups of people or individuals differently based prejudice
Extremisum
Believing in and supporting ideas that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable.
Human Rights
The basic entitlements all human beings, afforded to them simply because they are human.
-E.g all people should receive an education
Personal Conviction
Something a person strongly feels or believes in.
Prejudice
Pre-Judging, judging people to be inferior or superior without cause.
Relative poverty
A standard of poverty measures in relation to the standards of a society in which a person lives.
-E.g, Living on less than X percent of the average income in the UK.
Absolute poverty
An acute state of deprivation, whereby a person cannot access the most basic of human needs.
Social Injustice
Promoting a fair society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity. Ensuring that everyone has equal access to provisions, opportunities, and rights.
Name an organisation that aims to support human rights all over the world
Ammnesty international
What does Amnesty International do to support and maintain human rights? (5 Points)
- Forming protest marches
-Writing letters to governments campaigning for justice. - Raising awareness, through the media, of people who have had their rights abused
- Running school programs to educate the next generation.
- annual report on the death penalty.
Christian POV on human rights and social injustice
(9) 4/5 paragraphs
- Dignity of human life- Universal Declaration of Human Rights reflects the main Christian ideologies and principles.
- Freedom from discrimination
-Right to life - Right to Equality
-All reflected and have bible Quotes - All humans are created in the “imago dei,” without discrimination, and no individual should be mistreated. (Mistreating God)
-Jesus “the light of the world” whom the Christians should follow, WWJD.
- Jesus taught AGAPE
All should attempt AGAPE (love thy neighbour)
-Christians should be willing to suffer inconvenience, discomfort, and even death to benefit others without expecting anything in return.
3 Quotes supporting the Christian principle of freedom from discrimination. (Social injustice)
“All are equal in the eyes of God”
All humans were created “Imago dei”
“So god created mankind in his own image, in the image of God”
Imago Dei meaning
In the image of God
Quote, Christian principle of Right to life (Social injustice)
“thou shall not kill”
Quote, Christian principle of Right to equality. (Social injustice)
“neither jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Jesus Christ.”
