What you must do in this unit
- Review my comments on Human Rights and review the materials in Unit 3 on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Submit
- Submit the required Human Rights and Genocide paragraph (50 points).
What you can do in this unit
- Check out the United Nations' Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect
- United Nations' Peacekeeping
- Genocide: "Never again" has become "time and again"
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
- The Story of Human Rights
- Genocide in Africa
- 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 extra credit up to 5 points, I am collecting pictures of McDonald's restaurants from locations around the world (not in the US) for some remarks about the spread of pop culture in the world. If you are willing to send any photos (It must be a photo that you have taken yourself.), you will receive credit if I use the photo. Please attach the photo to an email to me at cevans@nvcc.edu.
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.