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