1. HUMAN RIGHTS
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko,
Rigoberta Menchu, and Fred Korematsu

2. ELIZABETH CADY
STANTON
• Born on November
13, 1815
• Johnstown, New
York.
• one of the first
leaders of the
American woman’s
right movement
•Writer, a Speaker, a
suffragist and women’s
right activist

3. My Background
My Father, Daniel Cady
a
prominent lawyer and
judge
My friend, Lucretia
Mott
•successfully lived well into
adulthood and through old
age
• enjoyed perusing her
father’s law library and
debating legal issues
• Henry Brewster Stanton,
and become active
members of the American
Anti-Slavery Society.
• to London and refuse
permission to speak at the
meeting

4. My
Accomplishments
•Women's Rights
movement
•formed an organization,
National Woman Suffrage
Association in 1869 and
worked to secure women’s
right to vote
• the first influence to
American woman of human
rights
•Women fought for the right
to vote, the right to own
property, and the right to
work outside the home
without discrimination
National Woman
Suffrage Association
Organization
The Woman’s Bible & Eight
Years and More Books

5. NELSON MANDELA
 Born in South Africa (Transkei)
 18 July, 1918
 1938 – Fort Hare University College
 Expelled 1940 for boycott and protest
 Joined African National Congress in
1942
 Sentenced to jail for 27 years

6. APARTHEID
 Established by government and different ethnic
groups
 Segregated laws
 Live in different “homelands”
 Difference in public services
 Ended in 90’s

7. MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 ANC
 Attempt to get rid of apartheid
government
 First black president of South
Africa
 1993 – Won noble peace prize

8. Steve Bantu Biko
(1946-1977)
 Anti-apartheid activist (non-violent) in South Africa
 Born in 18 December 1946, in King Williams Town of
South Africa
 Died 12 September 1977 in detention of
the police
 Leader of Black Consciousness movement
 “Being black is not a matter of
pigmentation - being black is a reflection
of a mental attitude.”

9. Apartheid Regime (1948-1993)
 ‘touched every aspect of social life, including a
prohibition of marriage between non-whites and
whites, and the sanctioning of ``white-only'' jobs’
(The History…).

10.  South Africa’s most influential and radical student leader
in the 1970s
 A martyr of the freedom struggle
 posed one of the strongest challenges to the apartheid
structure in the country.
 Health clinic systems for Blacks
 Literacy classes for Blacks
 Health education programs for Blacks
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT

11. RIGOBERTA MENCHU
 Fought for the rights of indigenous people
 Born in 1959 to a Mayan Indian in Guatemala
 From a poor family, worked in cotton and coffee
plantations with cruel landowners
“What I treasure most in life is being
able to dream. During my most
difficult moments and complex
situations I have been able to dream
of a more beautiful future.”
-Rigoberta

12. IMPORTANT HISTORY
 CIA Coup in 1954
 Organized by US’s CIA to overthrow Arbenz
 Believed Arbenz would affected American business
activities
 Guatemalan Civil War
 Ladinos (agricultural elites) vs. the Mayan
 The wealthy landowners took over land from the
Mayan to share amongst themselves

13. ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 Published my life story, “I, Rigoberta Menchu”
 Took Guatemalan politicians and militarists to trial in
Spain and 7 former government members found guilty
 Nobel Peace Prize in 1992

14. FRED KOREMATSU
 Born in America January 30, 1919 and raise
in California in Oakland and died in 2005
 Worked in the nursery
 Three brothers
 Lived on the west coast

15. THE ISSUES
 Then when pearl harbor was attacked Americans
officials ordered Korematsu to military area #1
according to Order 9066
 But refused and went hiding by
changing identity
 May 30, 1942, captured and put into
trial.
 Went against the supreme court after
the trial

16. ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 Improved the law, meaning that immigrants or
non-American can speak up.
 Improved Asian American civil rights
 Influence many people during the era against the
supreme court

17. POVERTY OF THE WORLD

18. WHAT IS POVERTY?
 Being poor or lacking money or means of survival (Barker 1995)
 No access health, education and other services
 Hunger, disease, illiteracy, joblessness, exclusion and social
discrimination
 Lack access to safe drinking water and food, sanitation and shelter,
education, health care
 International Poverty Line
- Income level
- World bank
- $1 per person

19. UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
• The income of richest 10%
in the world equals to the
income of the bottom 90%.
• The rich are mostly
concentrated on the US,
Europe and Japan.
• The richest 1% own 40%
of the world’s wealth

20. Population % of Poverty of the World
DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH

21. THE CAUSE OF POVERTY…
 Trade
 unfair trade agreements, lack of technology and investment
 Work and globalization:
 lacks communications and transport, factors that leads to a
“globalized” economy
 Education
 people who live in poverty cannot afford to send their children
to school, when they don’t know how to read and write they
are disadvantaged.
 War or conflict
 basic services like education are disrupted. People become
refugees. Crops are destroyed.

22. RICH VS. POOR
RICH PEOPLE POOR PEOPLE
 Benefit from economic or
political policies
 Wealthy, financial bailouts,
and more open to the public
 Poverty has always been
presented
 The gap between rich and
poor is quite high and often
widening
 Less access to health,
education, and other service
 Hunger, starvation, and
disease bother the poorest in
society
 Have little representation or
voice in public and political
debates
 Hard to escape poverty

23. WHY DOES IT MATTER?
 Rich-poor gap
 Over 3 billion people —less than $2.50 a day.
 Nearly a billion people entered the 21st
century unable to read a book or sign their
names.
 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2
children in the world).
 25,000 people die every day of hunger or
hunger-related causes (one person every
three and a half seconds)

24. PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE LIVING BELOW POVERTY
LINE

25. GAPMINDER STATS
 http://www.gapminder.org/