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18 Cards in this Set
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Human Rights
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Any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose excercise a government may not interfere.
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United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (document)
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-Outline of the 30 rights guarenteed to all people
-Catogores: civil rights, political, economical, social, and cultural rights. |
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Liberty
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The freedom you agree to share in common with other people.
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Suffrage
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The right to vote
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Discrimination
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Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.
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Refugees
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One who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political, economic hardship, war, etc.
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Asylum
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Protection from damage or hardship
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Guerilla Warfare
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the use of hit-and-run tactics by small mobile groups of irregular forces operating in territory controlled by a hostile, regular force.
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Maquiladora
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A factory run by a US company in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and tax regulation
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Sandinista
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A member of the Nicaraguan revolutionary movement that took control of nicaraguan in 1974
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Contras
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A member of a counter revolutionary guerrilla group in Nicaragua
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Monroe Doctrine
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The policy, as stated by President Monroe in 1823, that the US opposed further European coloniztion of and interference with independent nations in the western hemisphere.
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The Disappeared (people/event)
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-A period between 1976-1983 when thousands of Argentines were "removed from society by the government in an attempt to wipe out feared terrorist.
-Some of these people were never to be found |
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United Nations
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An organization made up of about 190 independent states/countries formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security as well as a free and fair world.
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Zapistas
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Zapistas Army of National Liberation.
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Cold war
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Rivalry after WW2 where Cuba's communist government kept people from ther rights.
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Amnesty International
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AWARENESS of human rights violations, protection, and education
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Human Rights Watch
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1. Investigate status of HR
2. Inform people of violations 3. Help fix status of HR |
