Assignment task:
- In Uganda, 1,500 people die each week in the internally displaced person camps. According to the World Health Organization, 500,000 have died in these camps.
- In northern Uganda, the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) guerillas have kidnapped 20,000 children over the past 20 years and forced them into service as soldiers or sexual slaves for the army.
- In Asia, Japan is the major destination country for trafficked women, especially from the Philippines and Thailand. Also, UNICEF estimates there are 60,000 child prostitutes in the Philippines.
Answer the following questions:
1. Choose one of the three situations described above.
2. Which article or articles of the UDHR does the situation you chose violate?
3. How might society change in the situation you selected if more people understood and accepted the concept of human rights?
4. Give examples of human rights violations currently discussed in the media this past week.