Post on 17-Jan-2016
Human Rights Issues
Apartheid “apartness” - racial
segregation in S. Africa from 1948-1994
Nelson Mendela President from 1994 –
1999 was arrested in 1962 for
anti-apartheid statements
served 27 years in prison
Genocide
deliberate & systematic destruction of an ethnic, racial, or religious group Holocaust (1940s)
Germans killing Jews
Rwanda (1994) mass murder of 800,000 people Hutus killing Tutsis http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3594187.stm
Bosnian War (1992 – 1995) Serbs killing Bosnians
Famine 925 million people
starving (2010) N. Korea Horn of Africa http://www.wfp.org/hunger
Diseases Influenza
36,000 deaths/year in U.S. Cholera
diarrhea infection Zimbabwe & Haiti
AIDS killed 25 million people since
1981 sub-Saharan Africa
Malaria mosquito parasite kills 2.7 million people/year kills 2,800 children/day