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Human rights

Fundamental and universal rights and freedoms to which all human beings are entitled. They consist of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights that States are obliged to fully respect according to common standards ratified by national and international legislation.

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Queen Noor

Human rights; Equality

Her Majesty Queen Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby to an Arab-American family. She is an International humanitarian activist now.

Waris Dirie

Human rights; Equality

Waris Dirie is a Somali supermodel that turned human rights activist speaking out against the process of FGM, being herself a victim of this practice when she was 5. At the age of ...

suffrage

Human rights; Equality

Suffrage is classified as the right to vote. Transcendentalists believed that all people regardless of race and ethnicity should be given the same rights.

residential schools

Human rights; Equality

Schools in Canada where indigenous First Nations children were sent and required to attend between 1880 - 1970s and suffered abuse and trauma through many generations.