Human rights

• Censorship: The act of controlling or restricting what can be said or written.
• Discrimination: The act of treating someone differently because of their race, gender, or sexual orientation.
• Extremism: A belief or practice that is extreme or extreme in nature.
• Human rights: basic entitlements for all humans to live
• Personal conviction: something a person strongly feels or believes in
• Relative poverty: standard of living measured in relation to the standards of the society in which people live
• Absolute poverty: acute state of deprivation, a person cannot access the most basic human needs
• Social justice: The belief that everyone should have equal access to resources and opportunities.
• Tearfund

  A christian charity that follows the examples of Jesus

  Help the poor by opening sports clubs in their areas

  Help others after disasters

  Encourages self help

  Teaches people by training them and going into schools
• CAFOD (Christian aid for overseas development)

  Christian charity and follows the teachings in the Bible

  Help to support poorer countries

  Help those in relative poverty and in absolute poverty

  Charity that goes by "love thy neighbour" and helps everyone

  Help vulnerable countries with emergency aid and long term aid
• Christian Aid


  Christian charity that helps all denominations

  Went to East Asia to build houses, schools and buildings after Tsunamis

  Helped Sierra Leone during the Ebola Outbreak

  They want to get rid of poverty
• Amnesty International

  Global charity that is non-religious

  Help to fight for human rights in all countries

  Run school programmes and events to teach human rights

  Raises awareness on media for people's human rights who have been abused

  They write letters to governments to campaign for justice
• Oscar Romero

  Archbishop of El Salvador which had a lot of inequality

  Spoke against the government

  He spoke through the censorship in his country to speak the truth of what was happening

  He was threatened by the Government

  He was then killed during Mass
• Malala

  Taliban did not let her go to school

  Got shot in the head after she criticised the Taliban online

  She campaigned for girls education

  Was a BBC presenter

  Won the Nobel Peace Prize
• Martin Luther King

  Spoke out about equality for black people

  Played a big role in the civil rights movement

  Made public speeches - "I had a dream"

  Heavily critised by the public

  Won a Nobel peace prize

  Was assassinated because of his campaign
• Agape in action: unconditional love
• Liberation theology: address the problems of poverty and social justice
• Dignity of human life: understanding that everyone is made in Gods image - "God created all mankind in his own image"