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Here's a Human Rights Matching Quiz. Try to match up the name or phrase on the left with the definition on the right.
| ____a. | Amnesty International
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| ____b. | United Nations
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| ____c. | Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
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| ____d. | AI's Urgent Action Network
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| ____e. | Prisoner of Conscience
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| ____f. | human rights
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| ____g. | mistreatment or maltreatment
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| ____h. | due process of law
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| ____i. | death penalty or capital punishment
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| ____j. | grassroots action
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| ____k. | incommunicado detention
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| ____l. | non-violent political action
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| ____m. | conscientious objection
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| ____n. | the Convention on the Rights of the Child
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| 1. | a non-violent person arrested and jailed for expressing his or her opinions.
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| 2. | the ultimate punishment for breaking the law.
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| 3. | a document which defines and describes the rights all people have.
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| 4. | the legal procedure that should be followed in all arrests.
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| 5. | work by ordinary people to bring about social change and justice for all.
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| 6. | an Amnesty International program in which committed letter-writers are immediately informed about serious human rights violations and given the names of government officials to whom they can write.
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| 7. | refusal to participate in the armed services because of personal or religious beliefs.
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| 8. | a voluntary organization made up of most countries in the world.
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| 9. | an international human rights organization of over one million members founded in 1961 which works to stop torture, execution, and imprisonment of people held solely for their opinions.
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| 10. | imprisonment without visits permitted from lawyers and family members.
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| 11. | inflicting physical or mental pain on purpose.
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| 12. | what all persons should be allowed just because they are human.
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| 13. | ordinary people protesting government actions or policies, peacefully.
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| 14. | a list of special rights children in every nation should enjoy.
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