 Unit Three: Global Citizenship Human Rights Violations Throughout History

 What human rights are being violated by Bullying?

 Human Rights Violations in History

 FACTS: Systemic killing (genocide) of more than 6 million people, many of them Jewish, byAdolf Hitler and his Nazis Hitler’s goal was to have the Germans rule all of the world; he dreamed of an “Aryan” race, where everyone was of northern European descent (blonde, blue eyed, Christian) Hitler and the Nazis established concentration camps (work and extermination) to send those who did not fit the ideal IMPACT: First time a major genocide had happened in modern history; the world turned a blind eye The Holocaust

  FACTS:  Criminal trials held by victorious allied forces (UK, US, France, Soviet Union) to prosecute the men who played a role the Holocaust  24 Nazi officials were put on trial (many of the most senior, like Hitler, had committed suicide); at the end of the trial, 12 were sentenced to death and 3 received life imprisonment  IMACT:  Trials were extremely important in establishing world wide human rights; they led to the creation of the United Nations (an international peace keeping association) and the writing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Nuremberg Trials

  FACTS:  Boarding schools established to assimilate Native Canadian children into Euro-Canadian culture  After the Europeans began settling in Canada, they decided the children of Natives should be taught “proper” values  Kids were taken from their families as young as age 5 and forced to live with other children under the care of nuns and missionaries from the Church Residential Schools

  Children were not allowed any contact with their parents, were forced to speak English and conform to Catholic beliefs and were often verbally, physically and sexually abused  The last residential school did not close until 1994  IMPACT:  We think that most human rights violations happen in third world or war torn countries; in reality, they happen in first world countries as well Residential Schools

  FACTS:  A common occurrence in third world countries  Many major corporations (including Nike and Gap) use child labour to reduce the cost of manufacturing their products; pay the children that work for them pennies a day  The children are forced to work to support themselves and their families and have little to no education, which limits their job opportunities  IMPACT:  It is important to understand that we support and even encourage human rights violations on a daily basis Child Labour

  FACTS:  Genocide (systemic killing of a group of people) in Rwanda  Two groups of Rwandan’s, Tutsi’s and Hutu’s from Rwanda; the Tutsi’s (who were the minority) had ruled over the Hutu’s for centuries, before being defeated and overthrown by the Hutu’s  A rebel group of Tutsi’s attempted to regain power in 1994 by assassinating one of the most powerful Hutu’s  This caused a civil war to break out in Rwanda Rwandan Genocide

  War quickly became extremely violent with the Hutu’s holding night time raids in Tutsi neighbourhoods and killing hundreds of thousands of Tutsi’s  In 3 months, more than 800,000 people were killed  IMPACT:  The world had not learned from WWII and Hitler  The rest of world and the United Nations refused to intervene and stop the violence, despite being warned of the genocide BEFORE it had even begun Rwandan Genocide

 Crisis since rebel groups accused the Sudan Government of oppressing non Arab Sudanese A group called the Janjeweed are financially supported by the Government – extreme violence Sudan is using it's oil wealth to fund attacks on civilians, Government diversions of this cash Hundreds of thousands have died, millions have fled as refugees The conflict is not yet solved, the Government is ignoring UN resolutions and peacekeeping attempts Darfur, Sudan

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