Final Project: Human Rights

1. Final Project: Human Rights By Chris Marcal Social Studies Per 7 Mr. Manganiello

2. Historical Context Throughout history, groups of people have suffered human rights violations • Kurds (Iraq) • Muslims (Bosnia) • Untouchables (India) • Jews (Nazi Germany)

3. Jews in Nazi Germany • Nuremberg Laws- deprived Jews of German citizenship and marriage with Germans. • The Jews were removed from schools, banned from good jobs, excluded from military service, and were forbidden to share a park bench with a non Jew. • Ghettos-(small rundown neighborhoods) the Jews were forced to beg or steal to survive. During the long winters, heating fuel was small, and many people lacked warm clothing.

4. Night of Broken Glass In two days, over 1,000 synagogues were burned, 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, many Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted. This night became known as, the "Night of Broken Glass," for the shattered glass that littered the streets. Night of Broken Glass

5. Holocaust • Concentration camps- place where all the Jews were sent and tortured • While in the Ghettos the Jews were forced to gather the men and women were forced to separate and put into cargo trains • They were gassed, hung, and starved

6. In India the caste system divides social class the Brahmans on top and the untouchables on bottom The Untouchables can’t hold jobs that pay a lot of money. They got jobs their parents had, which were cleaning, farming. The Untouchables couldn’t marry other cast members. Gandhi helped liberate India and got rid of the Caste system. Untouchables (India)

7. The Kurds are scattered throughout Turkey, Iran, Iraq and other areas in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Kurds

8. The Kurds are an agricultural people, squeezed between Iran, Iraq and Turkey and struggling to build a state of their own The Iraqi forces, allied with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, had by Saturday night taken most or all of Irbil, the main Kurdish city in the north. The rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said it was resisting the assault and still held at least part of the city. History of the Kurds

9. Muslims (Bosnia) • Bosnia is one of several small countries that emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia in WW1 • A new leader arose by the late 1980s, a Serbian named Slobodan Milosevic • He started tensions between the Serbs and Muslims saying they needed to start ethnic cleansing • In 1992 the Bosnian Serbs set up prison camps holding tens of thousands of Muslims • Many civilians have been killed or wounded by snipers and plane bombs used by Bosnian Serb forces

10. Bosnia

11. Bibliography • http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/bosnia_genocide.htm • http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9609/01/kurds/index.html • http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/kristall.htm • http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/lghetto.htm