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Youth Challenge
Teaching human rights & responsibilities.

Unit 1: Resources and Worksheets

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Key questions: The origins of human rights

What events in world history have helped shape our understanding of human rights?

How and when was the United Nations formed?

Did events that occurred in wars before World War II
have much influence on the development of human rights?
Give examples.

What human rights abuses in WWII helped prompt the
formation of the United Nations?


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