What you must do in this unit
- Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration is available in over three hundred languages, and the site includes an explanation of how the Declaration was drafted.
- Read my comments on Human Rights, democratization and Eleanor Roosevelt. Please note that all of my comments and notes in the course have additional online resources that you can check for more information.
Submit
- Post (or respond) with your thoughts/ideas/comments in the discussion board in Canvas: Explain which of the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration has been the most important. (5 points)
What you can do in this unit
- Nelson Stewart, former student in HIS 112, created an online, narrated Prezi on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Human rights come in many different forms. See the story map created by Mary Grace Sheers, HIS 112, the American Disability Rights Movement.
- There are other supra-governmental organizations in the world. Mike Oliver, former student in HIS 135, has created a good online timeline of the development of the European Union.
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
- The 30 Articles of Human Rights
- Universal Declaration on Human Rights - 1948
- The 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- UN Human Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Human Rights Action Center, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Focus Human Rights: Violations, History, First Dimension
- International Human Rights | 1450 - Present | World History | Khan Academy
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (read aloud by celebrities)
- Eleanor Roosevelt addresses the United Nations on the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- For extra credit please suggest to your instructor a relevant video for this unit of the course. Send the title of the video, the URL and a brief explanation of why you find the video interesting and applicable to the material that is being studied in this unit.
Extra Credit Options
- For up to 25 points of extra credit, in a one-page paper consider comparing the Charter of the League of Nations with the UN Charter.
Unit Learning Objectives
- Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to (1) explain the role of human rights in the countries of the world and (2) define the role of the United Nations in the world.