Introduction to Human Rights

• What are human rights?

• How do human rights affect your daily life?

• How do agreements on what is or is not a human right come about?

• Didn't Nazi tyranny end all hope for protecting human rights in the modern world?

• How did the world's nations go about making a difference in protecting individuals' rights?

• What makes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights so important?

• Given the grave human rights violations in our world, has the Universal Declaration of Human Rights really done any good?

• What are the most important human rights described in the Universal Declaration?

• Who's in charge of protecting human rights?

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