A PowerPoint used to help teach my GCSE CT students about the concepts of Human Rights. Please reference A.Ali AST at The Bulmershe School if used.

1. Discuss
Human Rights
Are Only
Designed For
The Rich…?

2. Human rights
Syllabus Links…
Controlled Assessment Preparation…

3. Human Rights
Review…
O Understand and give examples of
human rights
O Distinguish between legal and moral
rights
O Outline important conventions and
laws on Human rights including UK
Human Rights Act
O Discuss where human rights
violations occur

4. Human Rights ‘…the foundation of
freedom, justice, and peace in the
world’ – what do you think this
means in practice?

5. Declaration of Human rights
O Can you remember all 30? Which is the most
important?
O Think about the entitlements you have in this country.

6. Every right comes with a
responsibility…

7. FREEDOM
OF
SPEECH

8. Sensible
behaviour

10. Religions

11. Awareness
of your
community

13. Political
control

14. What does the picture make you
think?

15. Rights and Responsibilities in a
family…
Rights Responsibilities

16. What is parental responsibility?
O providing a home for the child
O having contact with and living with the child
O protecting and maintaining the child
O disciplining the child
O choosing and providing for the child's education
O determining the religion of the child
O agreeing to the child's medical treatment
O naming the child and agreeing to any change of the child's name
O accompanying the child outside the UK and agreeing to the child's
emigration, should the issue arise
O being responsible for the child's property
O appointing a guardian for the child, if necessary
O allowing confidential information about the child to be disclosed

17. Rights and Responsibilities in a school…
Rights Responsibilities

18. School Responsibilities…
O You must be given 24 hours' notice in writing if the school wants to give your
child a detention out of school hours.
O Schools must give you a written report on
your child at least once a year.
O Progress on all the National Curriculum
subjects they have studied
O progress in other subjects and activities
O general progress and attendance
O results in any National Curriculum tests and
assessments

26. All human beings are entitled to…
O Freedom O Right to a Fair trial
O Equality O Right to privacy
O Freedom from Slavery O Freedom from discrimination
O Right to move within your own
O Right to nationality
country
O Freedom from torture O Right to claim asylum in
O Treated equally in the law others
O Equal protection from the law O Right to own property
O Right to select government O Right to religious freedom
O Right to security O Right to freedom of speech
O Right to work and workers
rights
O Responsibilities to your
community

27. Rights as freedoms and rights
as entitlements
Rights as freedoms Rights as entitlements
O Article 4: freedom from • Article 17: the right to
slavery property
O Article 19: freedom to • Article 24: the right to rest
express and opinion and leisure
• Article 26: the right to an
O Article 20: freedom of
education
peaceful protest
Which do you think are more important, rights as freedoms
or rights as entitlements?

29. UK Human O UK government incorporated
European Convention into UK
Rights Act law in 1998
O This means human rights
issues can be considered by
British courts
O Businesses and government
organisations in the UK must
consider human rights issues
before making decisions.

30. The Articles of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights were set up to protect
people . In the UK they are included as part
of our laws. Not all countries do this!!!
(Human Rights Act 1998; came into force 2002)

31. Legal rights
• A right is something to which everyone is entitled.
• Legal rights come from the law.
Think of 3 examples of legal rights which
you have under UK law?

32. Moral rights
O Moral rights originate in French revolution – ‘the
rights of man’.
O United Nations believes there are moral rights
which can be applied to everyone, eg right to
freedom from torture.
O Moral rights are not always legally enforceable

35. When looking at the following pictures
decide whether they show a legal or
moral responsibility…

36. Smacking children

37. Smacking children

38. 'Reasonable chastisement' is legal
OParents in England and Wales who smack children
so hard it leaves a mark will face up to five years in
jail under new laws in force from Saturday.

39. Smoking cigarettes around
children

40. Smoking cigarettes
around children

41. Carrying a knife-

42. Carrying a knife-

43. Criminal Justice Act 1988
O The Criminal Justice Act 1988 mainly relates to
carrying knives in public places, Section 139 being
the most important:
O (1) Subject to subsections (4) and (5) below, any
person who has an article to which this section
applies with him in a public place shall be guilty of an
offence. (2) Subject to subsection (3) below, this
section applies to any article which has a blade or is
sharply pointed except a folding pocketknife. (3) This
section applies to a folding pocketknife if the cutting
edge of its blade exceeds 3 inches. (4) It shall be a
defence for a person charged with an offence under
this section to prove that he had good reason or
lawful authority for having the article with him in a
public place.

44. Teenagers swearing in a public
park-

45. Teenagers swearing
in a public park-

46. O A High Court judge has ruled that people
should not be punished for hurling
obscenities in public because such words
are now so common they no longer cause
distress. Should the courts punish profanity?

47. Giving children healthy
food-

48. Giving children
healthy food-

49. Staying faithful in a relationship-

50. Staying faithful
in a relationship-

51. Privacy-

52. Privacy-

53. Summary…
O Legal rights are…
O Moral rights are…

54. Summary…
O Legal rights are covered by
Laws/Statutes/Acts/Legislation
O Moral rights are based on our beliefs and
values

55. Different types of law…
O In groups of 4
O Each person will be assigned a different
type of law, using pages 8-10 you must
research and present your ‘law’ to other
members of the group.

56. Plenary
O Why are laws are necessary?

O Where legal advice can be found?


57. Summary…
O Legal rights are…
O Moral rights are…

63. Where
was
this?

66. Discussion O “Everyone is entitled to
all the rights and
point freedoms set forth in
the Declaration without
distinction of any
kind.” (Article 2 of the
Universal Declaration
of Human Rights)
O Why do you think
Article 2 includes
everyone in the
world in the UDHR?
O What problems
might there be in
Genocide in Rwanda enforcing the
UDHR?

67. Crisis in Sudan

69. How does the law protect our
human rights?
A legal right is when a law protects a
human right

70. The right to education?
• School attendance and absence: the law
The law requires parents to make sure their children receive a full-time
education suitable to their needs. For most children this means
attending school regularly. As a last resort, schools and local authorities
have legal powers to deal with poor attendance.
But this is not
the case for
Ashleigh…

71. The right to be treated
equally?
LAW: The Race Relations Act says that it is an offence to
treat a person differently because of their race, colour,
nationality or ethnic origin.
This was not the case for Stephen
Lawrence. He was murdered in an
attack outside a bus stop. His
murderers were never caught and
a report said the police were
“institutionally racist”.
There is currently a trial going on
to try to put his murderers in
prison.

72. The right to privacy of
correspondence
The law says that you cannot open somebody
else’s post, or listen to phone conversations
(the police are only allowed to do this if they
think somebody is planning a terrorist attack
or something that will endanger the public)
• So why was a newspaper able to hack into the
phone of a murdered teenage?

73. Discussion point
The European Convention on Human Rights is legally
enforceable, however, the Universal Declaration of
Human rights is not legally binding but merely puts
moral pressure on nations to conform.
What are the arguments for and against
making the UDHR a convention which is
legally binding and setting up a world court
to deal with alleged breaches of human
rights?

74. Who is the worst?

75. Human Rights- Recap…
O The historical origins of human
rights
O The UN and European Council
and Human Rights
O The UK Human Rights Act
O Human Rights Violations

76. Key words for this lesson
O Human Rights – The basic entitlements of
every human being in the world. Example:
Shelter and food.
O Justice – This means fairness, where everyone
has equal rights and opportunities. Example:
Human rights

77. BALANCING RIGHTS?
O PRESS FREEDOM V PRIVACY
O FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION V ENCOURAGING
HATRED
O SECURITY V PRIVACY

78. HOW DO THE PICTURES SHOW A
CONFLICT IN RIGHTS?
- GUESS WHAT THE PICTURES REPRESENT
- THEN WRITE HOW THOSE RIGHTS CAN BE
RESTRICTED IN ORDER TO HELP MAINTAIN
ORDER/PROTECT THE PUBLIC/BETTER THE
COMMUNITY?

79. Section C Practice
Question.
O Can the rights of an individual ever be
restricted?
O 15 marks
O You must add the following in your
answer-
O Human rights
O Balance
O No less than 1 side.