Human Rights & Genocide Webquest - Process

Introduction

The quest for Human Rights has changed over the course of history. Each era and civilization defines what rights the people they are entrusted have or do not have. Slavery the most thought of human rights violation was used as a resource from captured enemies in war in ancient times such as in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, or as European mothers and children capture by the Barbary Pirates and sold into slavery to the Ottoman Empire from the 1500-1800s, or the African Slave Trade to South America, the Caribbean, and North America in the 1700s-1800s, are all recognized violations of human rights from our current perspective, and rarely seen as human rights violations at the time of their occurrence. Different eras and civilizations have propagated different values on human lives.

If we all now believe in Enlightenment principles, then "life" and "liberty" would be paramount in a fair and just world. Unfortunately, today not all countries and people of the world subscribe to these principles and human right practices. The world is complicated, and sometimes those complications have detrimental effects on our ability to govern, to live, to prosper, and to have empathy of and for our fellow humankind. Let's explore Human Rights and Genocide with a deeper understanding of how to preserve human rights while remembering what had occurred in acts of human rights violations and genocides.

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