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Glossary
- Abuse
- treat with cruelty or violence. To use something for a bad purpose or wrongly.
- Advocate
- somebody who publicly supports or says good things about something.
- Afford
- to have money enough to spare for. Also be able to buy — to be able to meet the cost of something.
- Affordable
- inexpensive; reasonably priced.
- Article
- separate section of a document or agreement, often showing one rule or point.
- Asylum
- a place where one is safe and secure.
- Court
- a place where law trials are held. Also a meeting of all the persons who are to seek justice in a law case, including the judge or judges, the lawyers, and jury.
- Culture
- the ideas, skills, arts, tools, and way of life of a certain group of people.
- Declaration
- a public statement; announcement.
- Defend
- to keep safe from harm or danger; guard; protect.
- Democracy
- government in which the people hold the ruling power, usually giving it over to representatives whom they elect to make the laws and run the government.
- Detain
- to keep from going; to keep for a while in custody; confine.
- Difference
- a way in which people or things are not alike.
- Discriminate
- to treat one person or group worse than others or better than others, usually because of prejudice about race, ethnic group, age group, religion, or gender.
- Duty
- something that a person should do because it is thought to be right, just, or moral.
- Equal
- having the same rights, ability, or opportunities as another.
- Ethnic
- having to do with a certain group, often from a specific area, that has the same culture.
- Fair
- just and honest; according to what is right.
- Free
- not under the control of another; not a slave or not in prison.
- Freedom
- the condition of being free; liberty; independence. Also the condition of being able to use or move about as desired.
- Good name
- somebody's reputation for honesty and integrity.
- Guilty
- having done something wrong; being to blame for something. Also judged in court as a wrongdoer.
- Human
- having to do with or belonging to people in general.
- Innocent
- not guilty of some crime or sin; blameless.
- International
- having to do with two or more countries.
- Law
- all the rules that tell people what they must or must not do, made by the government of a city, state, nation, etc.
- Life
- existence in the physical world. Also whole time somebody is alive.
- Nation
- a group of people living together in a certain area under the same government; state; country.
- Nationality
- the condition of belonging to a certain nation by having been born there or by having been made a citizen of it. Also a national group, especially of immigrants in their new country.
- Non-governmental
- (NGO) not governmental. NGOs are groups that are not part of the government but usually work with the government to improve things in the world.
- Prejudice
- deciding something about someone, especially bad, before knowing them. Disliking someone without a good reason, especially disliking them because of what they look like, where they are from or what group they are a part of, without actually knowing anything about them.
- Primary school
- primary (first in time or order; basic) + school. Also a school at which children receive their first formal education.
- Prison
- a place where people are kept locked up. Also a building with cells for locking up people who have done crimes or people awaiting a trial.
- Privacy
- the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people.
- Protect
- to guard or defend against harm or danger; shield.
- Responsibility
- the state, fact, or position of being accountable to somebody or for something. Also a thing or person to be taken care of or looked after.
- Rights
- something you are allowed to be. Something you are allowed to do or receive; a freedom to do something.
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- wife of former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was in charge of the group that made the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Search warrant
- a paper given by a court that gives people like the police permission to search someone's property.
- Slavery
- slave (a person owned by another person who has no freedom at all), a condition of being a slave; bondage.
- Social security
- a governmental system that provides benefits to retired persons, the unemployed, and the disabled. Also any government system that provides money assistance to people with inadequate or no income.
- Tolerance
- the accepting of the differing views of other people and fairness toward the people who hold these different views.
- Torture
- the act of greatly hurting someone on purpose, as a punishment or to cause the person to confess to something.
- To try someone
- to take someone to trial or court. Also to examine or investigate in court.
- Trade union
- An organized group of workers in a trade (a skilled job, typically one requiring skills and special training), group of trades, or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interest.
- Trial
- the act of hearing a case in a law court to decide whether a claim or charge is true. Also a formal examination of evidence by a judge, typically before a jury, in order to decide guilt in a case.
- United
- joined together in one; combined. Also joined together for a common purpose, or by common feelings.
- Universal
- of, for, or by all people; concerning everyone.
- Wage
- money paid to an employee for work done.
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