HITLER AND THE RIGHT TO EQUALITY.

The general principle of equality and non-discrimination is a fundamental element

of international human rights law. ‘Thus, the right to equal treatment requires that
all persons be treated equally before the law, without discrimination.
What are the five main features of right to equality?

Right to equality is one of the fundamental rights. It includes:

1. Equality before law,
2. Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of race, religion, gender, and birth
place.
3. Equality of opportunity in matters of employment

What is the importance of equality?

Equality is about ensuring that every individual has an equal opportunity to make
the most of their lives and talents. It is also the belief that no one should have
poorer life chances because of the way they were born, where they come from,
what they believe, or whether they have a disability

Right to equality is the most violated human right by dictators. Hitler as a

Dictators also violated this right.
WOMEN DURING HITLER`S RULE.
Life for women and the family in Nazi Germany
According to Hitler, Women were to serve and nurture their family while men
were in charge and had to protect their family. Hitler said this was "the natural
order".
Hitler promoted the importance of a stable, traditional family. Men were to be in
charge and protect their family. Women were to serve and nurture their family.

Hitler wanted to use families to increase the size of the population and to ensure it
was pure Germans.

Nazi views on the role of women

In public, Hitler said women were “equal but different from men”, but he actually
thought women were inferior.
 The Nazis expected women to stay at home, look after the family and produce
children in order to secure the future of the Aryan race.

 Measures were introduced which strongly discouraged women from

working, including:
1. training girls at school to be housewives and discouraging them from going
on to higher education;
2. the introduction of the Law for the Reduction of Unemployment, which gave
women financial incentives to stay at home;
3. Barring women from being.
4. Putting single women under pressure to give their jobs to unemployed men.
 Women were also not allowed to wear make-up, trousers or short skirts, or
dye or perm their hair and they were not to smoke in public.
 They were discouraged from staying slim or dieting, because it was thought
that thin women had trouble giving birth.