Final Project: Human Rights By Chris Marcal Social Studies Per 7 Mr. Manganiello

Historical Context Throughout history, groups of people have suffered human rights violations Kurds (Iraq) Muslims (Bosnia) Untouchables (India) Jews (Nazi Germany)

Jews in Nazi Germany Nuremberg Laws- deprived Jews of German citizenship and marriage with Germans. The Jews were removed from schools, banned from good jobs, excluded from military service, and were forbidden to share a park bench with a non Jew. Ghettos-(small rundown neighborhoods) the Jews were forced to beg or steal to survive. During the long winters, heating fuel was small, and many people lacked warm clothing.

Night of Broken Glass Night of Broken Glass In two days, over 1,000 synagogues were burned, 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, many Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted. This night became known as, the "Night of Broken Glass," for the shattered glass that littered the streets.

Holocaust Concentration camps- place where all the Jews were sent and tortured While in the Ghettos the Jews were forced to gather the men and women were forced to separate and put into cargo trains They were gassed, hung, and starved

Untouchables (India) In India the caste system divides social class the Brahmans on top and the untouchables on bottom The Untouchables can’t hold jobs that pay a lot of money. They got jobs their parents had, which were cleaning, farming. The Untouchables couldn’t marry other cast members. Gandhi helped liberate India and got rid of the Caste system.

Kurds The Kurds are scattered throughout Turkey, Iran, Iraq and other areas in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

History of the Kurds The Kurds are an agricultural people, squeezed between Iran, Iraq and Turkey and struggling to build a state of their own The Iraqi forces, allied with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, had by Saturday night taken most or all of Irbil, the main Kurdish city in the north. The rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said it was resisting the assault and still held at least part of the city.

Muslims (Bosnia) Bosnia is one of several small countries that emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia in WW1 A new leader arose by the late 1980s, a Serbian named Slobodan Milosevic He started tensions between the Serbs and Muslims saying they needed to start ethnic cleansing In 1992 the Bosnian Serbs set up prison camps holding tens of thousands of Muslims Many civilians have been killed or wounded by snipers and plane bombs used by Bosnian Serb forces

Bosnia

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