A. What are
Human Rights ?
1/ Introduction to the topic

Cédric Eyssette
https://eyssette.github.io/

a) Dates

1789

The Declaration of
the Rights of Man
and of the Citizen

1948

The Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights

April
1944

Women's Right
to Vote
in France

March 8

International
Women's Rights
Day

March 31

International
Transgender Day
of Visibility

b) Persons and
organizations

Malala
Yousafzai

She fights for
the right of girls
to education

Martin
Luther King

He struggled
for Black
civil rights

Doctors
Without Borders

They work to
ensure people's
right to health

Amnesty
International

They campaign
for human rights
in general

c) Places

Strasbourg

The European
Court of
Human Rights

Geneva

The United Nations
Human Rights
Council

d) Statistics

196
out of 197
countries …

… ratified the
Convention
on the Rights
of the Child

89
out of 197
countries …

… ratified the
Protocol aiming at the abolition of death penalty