Human Rights Webquest

Webquest on Human Rights and Genocide

Directions: Click on the links below for Steps #1, #2, #3 and respond to the questions that follow with the knowledge you gather from visiting each reading. Write your responses on the hard copy of this webquest.

Activity: Holocaust & Genocide Questions

Step #1 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Read Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Stp #2 - History of the Document

Read Universal Declaration of Human Rights History

Step #3 - Understanding Genocide

Genocides like the Holocaust often begin with small human rights violations that escalate systematically. Familiarize yourself with how the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defined genocide in 1948.

Read Genocide

Step #4 - Exploring Historic Human Rights Violations and Genocide Events

• Human Rights Violations & Genocide