human rights organizations

ByMason Krey

and Nathan Hughes

To Do List of Human Rights To Do List of Human Rights Groups Groups

5 Essential Question Definitions Human Rights Groups Unesco Red Cross Amnesty NAACP Scenario Pop Quiz 5 Essential Answers Why We Need Human Rights Groups Connection to Theme Bibliography

5 Essential Questions

1. What is the biggest organization fighting for human rights?

2. Where is Amnesty's, UNESCO’s, Red Cross’ and NAACP’s head quarters?

3. Which of the four organizations that we covered today won the Nobel Peace Prize?

4. Who founded Amnesty, UNESCO, Red cross, NAACP and in what year?

5. Why are there so many organizations?

Definition of human rights

• Human rights-fundamental rights, esp. those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere, as the rights to speak, associate, work, etc.

Definition of civil rights

• Civil rights- rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and certain Congressional acts, esp. as applied to an individual or a minority group.

Why We Need Human rights Groups

Mass grave from WW2

Child labor

Victim from the A-bomb in Hiroshima Cambodian holocaust

American slaves

Able bodied slaves forced to clean up the dead. WW2

Tulsa race riot

Human Rights Groups

• UNESCO

• Red Cross

• Amnesty International

• NAACP

UNESCO

The Formation of UNESCO

• CAME, 1942

• Education around the world

• Second conference, London

• 44 participating countries

• UNESCO is born, 1945

• First Official General Conference, Paris

UNESCO House

UNESCO’s Achievements

UNESCO’s Relevance

UNESCO Science Behind

• Psychology

• Technology

Human Rights Groups

UNESCO

• Red cross

• Amnesty International

• NAACP

Red Cross• Blood Drives

• Health Care

• Natural Disasters

• World Wide War Relief

• Started in Geneva, Switzerland

Red Cross Headquarters

Red Cross History Clara Barton Founded the American Red Cross

Geneva Convention Started

Red Cross Aided Allied Soldiers in World War I

1927 Relief Projects Started After War

World War II Blood Donations Initiated

1919 Red Cross Joins 175 Human Rights Organizations

Important Person:Clara Barton

•Founder of American Red Cross

•Teacher, Nurse, Humanitarian

•Oxford, Massachusetts

•Single

Red Cross Projects

• Armed Forces Emergency Service • Bio Medical Service• Disaster Service• Health & Safety Service• International Services • Fundraising Projects

Red Cross Fights For Your Rights

• General Health Care

• Major Health Care

• Relief Projects

Relevance

The Haiti Earthquake

Chile Earthquake

Indonesian Volcano

Drawing blood

Communication

Donations

Human rights groups

UNESCO

Red Cross

• Amnesty International

• NAACP

Amnesty International

“Our vision is for every person to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human

Rights and other international human rights standards.”

Amnesty’s History

• 1961

• Peter Benenson

• “The Forgotten Prisoners”

• Biggest!

Important Person - Peter Benenson• Born 1921, London

• Catholicism

• 4,000 pounds

• Refugee children

• Died 2005, Oxford, England

Amnesty International’s Projects, and Achievements

1965

1972

1973

1977

2004

Amnesty International’s Relevance

Amnesty International Science Behind

• Technology

• Psychology

Video Time!

Human rights groups

UNESCO

Red Cross

Amnesty International

• NAACP

NAACP

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• African American Rights

• Social Fairness

Human rights map NAACP

NAACP History• 1889-1918• 1909• 1915• 1919 • 1948• 1963• 1965• 1968• 1981• 2010

1889-1918

1909

1915

1948

1963

1965

1968

1981

2010

Important Person: Martin Luther King Jr.

• Member of NAACP

• American Baptist

• I Have A Dream

• Nobel Peace Prize

Relevant

Science BehindNAACP

• Tea parties

• Communication

• Weapons

Human rights groups

UNESCO

Red Cross

Amnesty International

NAACP

Scenario #1

Red Cross

Scenario #2

Amnesty

Scenario #3

NAACP

Scenario #4

UNESCO

Essential Answer #1

• Q: What is the biggest organization fighting for human rights?

• A: The biggest organization fighting for human rights is Amnesty International.

Essential Answer #2

• Q: Where is Amnesty International’s, UNESCO’s, Red Cross’ and NAACP’s head quarters located?

• A: Amnesty International: London England, UNESCO: Paris France, Red cross: Washington D.C., NAACP: Baltimore Maryland

Essential Answer #3

• Q: Which of the four organizations that we covered today won the Nobel Peace Prize?

• A: Amnesty International

Essential Answer #4

• Q: Who founded Amnesty, UNESCO, Red Cross and NAACP?

• A: Amnesty: Peter Benson, Unesco: It was found by 37 different country's, Red cross: Clara Barton, NAACP: Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimké, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, William English Walling, Florence Kelly

Essential Answer #5

• Q: Why are there so many organizations?

• A: They are so many to meet the many different needs of different countries and people around the world.

Connection to theme

• This is connected to our theme human rights/civil rights because these are the people and org. fighting for everybody's human and civil rights.

BibliographyWebsites

http://www.redcross.org/museum/history/brief.asp

http://www.thinkfinity.org/?q=naacp-resources

http://www.hrweb.org/orgs.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People

http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_segregation_black.gif

http://www.abc.net.au/civics/rights/why.htm

BibliographyBooks• The NAACP: Journey to Freedom by Andrew

Santella in 2004• Humanitarian Organizations: Red Cross by Ann

Parry• NAACP 100: Celebrating a Century in Pictures by

Gibbs Smith• Humanitarian Organizations: Amnesty

International by Ann Parry• International Organizations: Amnesty

International by Deena Banks

Bibliography

• Place Visited - Museum of Tolerance

• Video - The Children's March; Death to the Death Penalty

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