Human Rights Report

Imagine you are reporter writing a story about Human Rights for young teenagers. Why is it important that people
know what their rights are? What rights do you think are important?

TASK 1 – What are ‘Human Rights’? Describe in your own words what the term means.

TASK 2 – Which of the following do you think are Human Rights? Tick the correct Rights.

A. Nobody can torture or hurt you.

B. You have the right to smack a child if they are annoying you.
C. You have the right to go to school.
D. You have the right to call people names if you want to.
E. You can belong to any religion that you want.
F. Everyone has human rights, whatever they look like or how old they are.
G. You can take someone else’s money if they earn more than you.

TASK 3 – Why is it important that everyone knows what their Rights are? Answer in full sentences.

A. Everyone should know their Rights so that...

B. Human Rights are important because...

TASK 4 – Look at the Human Rights that you sorted into order of importance and complete the following in full
sentences.

I thought that was the most important law

I thought this Right important because