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Language Learning Goal: To identify women’s rights through the use of manners, to highlight their
dignity around the world.
1. Key Vocabulary:
Complete the following crossword puzzle with the missing letters according to the definition. Don´t
forget to write the word in the corresponding space and line

2 Y W

1 R I G H T A

E 3 E Q U A L I T Y

S D 6

5 P A R T I C I P A T I O N  

E 4 

C   7 D I G N I T Y

T 9 L I B E R T Y

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N O I T I N G O C E R 11

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Across:

1. _ : Are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human

behavior, and are regularly protected as legal rights in municipal and international law.
3. :  Is a state of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated
group have the same status in certain respects, often including civil rights, freedom of
speech, property rights, and equal access to social goods and services.

5. :  In social science, refers to different mechanisms for the public to express

opinions - and ideally exert influence - regarding political, economic, management or other
social decisions. 

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7. _ : To express the idea that a being has an innate right to be valued, respected,
and to receive ethical treatment. In the modern context dignity can function as an extension of
the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inalienable rights.
9. _ : In philosophy, involves freewill as contrasted with determinism. In politics,
liberty consists of the social and political freedoms enjoyed by all citizens.
11. _ : The perception of something as existing or true; realization.

13. _________________: Set of associates for the same purpose and, where appropriate, a legal

person formed by them.

15. __________________: Area of private life that has the right to protect from any interference.

Down:
2. : To have regard for something, to observe a custom, practice, rule or right.

4. _ : in whichone is morally or legally obligated to do. 

6. ________________:The principles and regulations established in a community by some
authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislationor of custom and policies 
recognized and enforced by judicial decision.
8. _ : The quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness.
10. _________________: The condition of something that changes or develops, such as an
organization or system.
12. ________________: Communication or acquisition of knowledge that allows to expand or
specify what is possessed on a given subject.

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I STRENGTHEN MY AUTONOMY THROUGH…: Action based on principles.

Language Learning Goal: To identify women’s rights through the use of manners, to highlight their
DUTY-RIGHT-RESPECT-EQUALITY-PARTICIPATION-LAW-DIGNITY-
dignity around the world.
LIBERTY-JUSTICED-RECOGNITION-HEALTH-INFORMATION-
ASSOCIATION-PRIVACY.
LEARNING STRATEGIES: Identify main ideas, summarizing, and elaboration of a comic.
Women's rights:
KEY VOCABULARY:

Write a short text on women's rights, use the words from the key vocabulary.

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CONTENT:
Read the text carefully. Then, copy the main and secondary ideas in your notebook.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women1

Main article: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Participation in the   Only signed

CEDAW  Signed and ratified
  Non-signatory
  Acceded or succeeded
  Unrecognized state, abiding
by treaty

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, enshrines "the equal rights of men
and women", and addressed both the equality and equity issues. In 1979, the United Nations

1
Taken from:  Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Article 2 (e).
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/text/econvention.htm#article16

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General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women (CEDAW) for legal implementation of the Declaration on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women. Described as an international bill of rights for women, it came into
force on 3 September 1981. The UN member states that have not ratified the convention are Iran,
Palau, Somalia, Sudan, Tonga, and the United States. Niue and the Vatican City, which are non-
member states, have also not ratified it. The latest state to become a party to the convention is
South Sudan, on 30 April 2015.
The Convention defines discrimination against women in the following terms:
Any distinction, exclusion or restriction made on the basis of sex which has the effect or purpose of
impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise by women, irrespective of their marital
status, on a basis of equality of men and women, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the
political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field.
It also establishes an agenda of action for putting an end to sex-based discrimination for which
states ratifying the Convention are required to enshrine gender equality into their domestic
legislation, repeal all discriminatory provisions in their laws, and enact new provisions to guard
against discrimination against women. They must also establish tribunals and public institutions to
guarantee women effective protection against discrimination, and take steps to eliminate all forms
of discrimination practiced against women by individuals, organizations, and enterprises
We are all entitled to human rights. These include the right to live free from violence and discrimination;
to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; to be educated; to own property;
to vote; and to earn an equal wage.
But across the globe many women and girls still face discrimination on the basis of sex and gender.
Gender inequality underpins many problems which disproportionately affect women and girls, such as
domestic and sexual violence, lower pay, lack of access to education, and inadequate healthcare.
These are:
1. Natural rights
2. Equal employment
3. Right to vote
4. Property rights
5. Freedom of movement
6. Informing women about their legal rights
7. Discrimination
8. Right to health
9. Right to education
10. Reproductive rights
11. Freedom from violence
12.Family law
Hands on:
Explain in a paragraph (10 lines-80 words) what is the main intention of the convention.
In your paragraph you should:
Answer the questions
Use CAPITAL letters
Use punctuation marks
Use some of these linking words (For example, Also, Too, in addition to, to summarize, Firstly, secondly,
finally, etc.)
80 words

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FOLLOW UP:
Now, look at this cartoon, analyze the pictures and complete it:

LASSO OF TRUTH:

FORMATIVE EVALUATION: put a tick in the corresponding level and complete the
chart below. According to the “Content and language learning goal”, I can rate my
performance as”:
Through the activities in the section I could learn ____________________
SUPERIOR ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
HIGH
____________________________________________________________
BASIC

LOW

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