Human Rights

• Censorship is the practice of suppressing or limiting access to materials considered to be obscene, offensive or a threat to security. People may be restricted in their speech by censorship laws.
• Discrimination is treating groups or individuals differently based on prejudice.
• Extremism is believing in and supporting ideas that are very far from what most consider correct or reasonable.
• Human rights are the basic entitlement of all human beings afforded to them simply because they are human beings.
• Personal Conviction is something a person strongly feels or believes in.
• Prejudice is pre-judging; judging people to be inferior or superior without cause.
• Absolute Poverty is an acute state of poverty whereby a person cannot access the most basic of human needs.
• Relative Poverty is a standard of poverty measured in relation to the standards of a society in which a person lives, e.g. living on less than a certain percentage of average UK income.
• Social Justice is promoting a fair society by challenging injustice and valuing diversity. Ensuring that everyone has equal access to provisions, opportunities and rights.