Equality You should believe in equality between men and women .
Right to life Everyone should have the right to life
Self determination Everyone should have the right to self determination
Principles He has high moral principles.
Deprivation Deprivation of freedom
Fundamental You have a fundamental right to privacy.
Guarantee The country should guarantee the basic human rights.
Liberty People fight for liberty and justice.
Dignity It's difficult to preserve your dignity when you have no job and no home.
Leisure time Make the most of your leisure time!
detain He is detained for interrogation.
Compel He was compelled to do this against his wish.
conscience He has a clear conscience.
Degrade Don’t degrade yourself
Elimination He was eliminated of the competition.
Entitled Americans are so entitled
Frontier This is the frontier between Syria and Iraq.
Impartial A judge must be impartial and fair.
Impose The government imposed a curfew.
Persecution They suffered from persecution because of their color.
Slavery She was sold into slavery
Free speech Everyone should have right to free speech.
Gender gap Women have closed the gender gap in education in recent years .
A broken/stopped clock is right twice a day A : you know how I feel about the president, but even I think he’s right this time B: even a stopped clock is right twice a day
Stand for You know that Abraham Lincoln stood for human rights of the black people in America
Equality before the law A matter of principals The fundamental human rights Have the right to life
Have the right to self determination Statue of liberty During his leisure time Deprivation of freedom
A one year guarantee Detained for interrogation Be on my conscience Have some dignity Begging him was degrading for her
To compel him against his own will Must be impartial and fair The government imposed a curfew Elimination of the competition
Gender gap in favor of He was sold into slavery They suffered from persecution for years Right to free speech
Entitled to take photos A stopped/broken watch is right twice a day Stand for
Do you think it is the UN's job to make statements about human rights or should it be the responsibility of individual governments? Why/why not? Is it really reasonable to try to give the same rights to everyone in the world? Why/why not? Which of the human rights do you personally think is the most important? How many human rights do you think are fully observed in your country? In the world? Which countries do you think have a particularly bad record on human rights? Some people think that they can influence another country's internal politics by boycotting its products or not visiting it as a tourist. How effective do you think this kind of action is? If you know that a country still applies the death penalty, would it influence you in any way regarding visiting it or buying its exports? Why do you think it is so difficult to apply/comply with the basic human rights? Do you think that a state which ignores human rights in order to, for example, fight terrorism, devalues its moral status? Can you think of any examples? How many Human rights do you think were violated at Guantánamo? At times, we can see that some countries try to intervene or change some rights in order to maintain peacekeeping. Does that make the legitimacy of human rights vague?