5. Its main purpose was to prevent conventional
wars from occurring again.
To improve international relationships between
countries and provide a forum for discussion
when tension exists between sovereignties
The UN focuses largely of rights of all humans
especially in areas such as genocide, refugees,
targeted civilian attacks in wartime
The Purpose of the United Nations
7. It established the beginnings
of modern enforceable
customary law
It is the first global human
rights document that
specifically addresses
individual/group rights
UDHR was then enforced
through two covenants -
ICESCR and ICCPR
The significance of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights 1948
9. International Bill of Rights
Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights
1948
International
Covenant on Civil
and Political
Rights (ICCPR)
1976
International
Covenant on
Economic, Social
and Cultural
Rights ( ICESCR)
1976
Source: Shipp HR presentation Legal Studies 2013
10. Personality Time
Herbett V Evatt
• Attorney General of
Aust Govt 1941-1949
• He lost two brothers in
the wars and was
dedicated to civil
• rights of the underdog
• The president of the
UN GeneralAssembly
13. Aboriginal people began
forms of non-violent
protest against their
dispossession
Protests occurred due to
agricultural rights, wages,
working conditions and
then inequality under the
law
Background and Origins
14. Activity Time
Use pages 52-55 to complete the following table
Time Period Event Rights Issue
19th century
20th century
before ww1
inter-war years
15. Australia Day Jan 26, 1938 was declared a day of
mourning for theAboriginal people
Protests were organised to voice concern over the
mistreatment of rights toAboriginals
Day of Mourning 1938
18. The removal of aboriginal children from their
families during the period of 1905-1970
Historians have debated the positive and negative
impacts of this government policy
Stolen Generation
20. Source Analysis Time
Source
questions
S7.19 S7.20 S7.21 S7.22
Who wrote or created
the source?
How might the
source’s creator be
biased?
Why was the source
created?
What does the source
suggest about the
stolen generation?
How does the
perspective in this
source differ to the
other sources?
Do you think the
source is true and
reliable? why or why
not?
Stolen Generation Debate
22. Plessy vs Ferguson 1896 Supreme Court decision that held racially
segregated public areas legal
Jim Crow Policy - a policy of racial discrimination and
segregation againstAfricanAmericans
Between 1882 - 1930, 3386AfricanAmericans were known to be
lynched by white mobs. They was never any criminal charges laid
Civil Rights in USA
29. Dec 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated bus in
Alabama. This was in reaction to a 14 yr old murder of a black boy Emett Till
Martin Luther King Jr became the figurehead of the movement who
employed tactics of civil disobedience
Freedom Rides were organised by Northern White students and Southern
African -American activists to desegregate public transport and restrooms in
the south of USA
Civil Rights Movement 1955-68 USA
31. The freedom rides were met with violent
retaliation from white supremacists
the contrast between violent white groups and
passive freedom riders was widely broadcasted
and this led to public outrage
The Civil RightsAct (1964), The Voters Right
Act (1965) and the Fair HousingAct (1968) were
all influenced from this time
34. Segregation continued to exist with separate public
pools, cinemas and evenAboriginals were instructed to
leave the pavement for whites
The US civil rights movement was widely reported in
Australia, especially through the new medium of
television.
The US freedom rides influenced the beginning of
freedom rides to rural NSW
The Impact of the Freedom Rides on
Aboriginal Rights in Australia
35.
36. 34 students set out together on a bus from Sydney
University to investigate for themselves the
treatment of Indigenous peoples in the main
country towns of New South Wales.
led byAboriginal activist Charles Perkins, an
Arrernte man studyingArts at Sydney
University
NSW Freedom Rides 1965
