1. Fill in prepositions:
All human beings are endowed … reason and conscience and should act … one another … a spirit of brotherhood.
Human rights are the same for all human beings regardless … race, sex, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin.
No one has the right to deprive another person … human rights for any reason.
However, to adopt and apply human rights we need to be aware … the basic principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Yet, … freedom of speech neo-Nazis and white supremacists are present on the Internet.
Should they be banned? If your answer is yes, are you impinging … their basic human right even though their actions and beliefs are outside the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
If a right is inalienable, that means it cannot be bestowed, granted, limited, bartered …, or sold ...
The term came … wide use after World War II, replacing the earlier phrase “natural rights,” which had been associated … the Greco-Roman concept of natural law since the end of the Middle Ages.
Human rights have been classified historically … terms of the notion of three “generations” of human rights.
Many treaties and agreements for the protection of human rights have been concluded … the auspices of the United Nations.
2. Answer the following questions:
Where do universal rights begin?
What is the foundation of the freedom, justice, and peace in the world?
In what spirit should people act towards one another according to Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Do human rights belong to all people?
Are human rights an old concept?
Does anyone have the right to deprive another person of human rights?
What are first generation rights?
What do civil and political rights include?
What rights are “security-orientated”?
What do economic and social rights include?
What responsibilities does each person have with regard to the human rights of others?
What do we need in order to adopt and apply human rights?
How does the rise of the Internet influence the issues of freedom, especially freedom of speech?
What is a key factor to freedom of speech and therefore to human rights?
What allows us always to promote and protect human rights?
Does a right create only legal obligation that nations and people must fulfill?
According to what law do human rights belong to all humans?
What does an inalienable right mean?
When did the term “human rights” come into wide use?
What do we mean when we say that human rights are universal and fundamental?
With what rights are the Enlightenment and the English, American, and French revolutions associated with?
With what events is the second generation of economic, social, and cultural rights associated with?
When was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted?
What is the International Criminal Court aimed at?
Was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights a product of its time? If so, why?