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  • The right to education: When did it become illegal not to send your child to school in the UK?
    An 1880 Act made education compulsory until the age of ten.
  • Innocent until proven ......
    guilty
  • What does the right to life mean?
    The right to have life, to live in freedom and safety
  • What is the modern term for slavery?
    Human Traffiking
  • Which famous non violent protester for Human Rights said 'You must be the change you want to see in the world'?
    Mahatma Gandhi
  • In which year was the declaration of Human rights created?
    1948
  • How many countries are currently part of the United Nations?
    193
  • In the past the UK broke the right of unfair detainment by sending its convicts where?
    America and then Austrailia
  • What does no unfair detainment actually mean in a country?
    Nobody has the right to put you in prision without a good reason and keep you there, or to send us away from our own country
  • The right to a fair trail includes that the trial should be in public. How do we use the public in a UK trial?
    12 people on the jury who decide the verdict and public can attend any trial (we go in Yr12 criminology)
  • Right to privacy: List three things the government and others should not do without good reason
    enter your house, open your letters, go through your phone, bother you
  • Who was shot in the head by the Talaban for standing up for the right to education
    Malalah Yousafzai
  • Which 5 major powers started the idea of uniting the nations of the world?
    Britain, China, France, Soviet Union and USA
  • Dispite signing the Declaration of human rights the USA government put which famous black woman in prison for sitting at the front of a bus in 1954?
    Rosa Parks
  • which horrific world event triggered the creation of the Declaration of Human Rights?
    World war 2
  • Which Human Rights activist famous for his dream said 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere'?
    Martin Luther King Jnr
  • What is social security?
    The right to affordable housing, education and childcare, enough money to live on and medical help if you are old or ill
  • How many human rights are there?
    30
  • the right to marriage: When did gay marriage become legal in the UK?
    2014
  • The right to democracy: When did men get a vote in the UK?
    1918
  • The right to democracy: In which year did woman get the vote in the UK?
    1928
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