Human Rights Around the World

1. Learning from our Past? Human Rights Around the World

3. Aboriginal People in Canada • 1 in 4 First Nations children live in poverty. • 38% of the deaths of children ages 10-19 were suicides. • “Third World” diseases are more common • 1 in 3 First Nations people do not consider their water safe to drink

5. During the Great Depression • Many Jewish people remained well-off. This made people who lost their jobs angry. • People were afraid that immigrants and Jewish people would take their jobs.

6. Propaganda • The Nazi party used this anger and fear to convince people their persecution of Jewish people was right. • Using bad science some German scientists tried to assign racial traits to Jews as a group. They were, the Germans said, greedy, selfish, sneaky and polluting the German race.

7. Treatment of Jews • More and more rights were taken away from Jewish people • Had to wear yellow star to identify them • Were not allowed to be doctors, teachers, lawyers and many other jobs • Had to follow curfews and strict rules about where they could go

8. The Holocaust • Eventually many of Europe’s Jews were sent to death camps • Over 6 million Jewish people died in the Holocaust • Over 1 million of those were children

9. The Holocaust