Final Project: Human Rights

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Final Project Human Rights

• By Chris Marcal
• Social Studies Per 7
• Mr. Manganiello

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Historical Context

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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Untouchables (India)

• In India the caste system divides social class
  the Brahmans on top and the untouchables on
  bottom
• The Untouchables cant hold jobs that pay a lot
  of money. They got jobs their parents had, which
  were cleaning, farming.
• The Untouchables couldnt marry other cast
  members.
• Gandhi helped liberate India and got rid of the
  Caste system.

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Kurds

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

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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.

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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

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Bosnia
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Bibliography

• http//www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/bosnia_g
  enocide.htm
• http//www.cnn.com/WORLD/9609/01/kurds/index.html
• http//www.ushmm.org/outreach/kristall.htm
• http//www.ushmm.org/outreach/lghetto.htm