🕊️ HUMAN RIGHTS

🌍 Knowing Our Rights and Respecting Others

🌟 Learning Goals:

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
✅ Give examples of human rights
✅ Identify rights that protect us from discrimination
✅ Say who may be treated unfairly and why
✅ Talk about problems caused when rights are denied
✅ Explain how religion protects dignity
✅ Understand why human rights are important

🧠 What Are Human Rights?

Human rights are things that every person is allowed to have or do because they are human.

They help us:

• Live safely

• Be treated fairly

• Grow up healthy and happy

• Learn and go to school

• Speak freely and be heard

🗒️ Examples of Human Rights

Here are some important rights that you have:

✅ Right to life – to be safe and protected
✅ Right to food – to eat and not go hungry
✅ Right to education – to go to school and learn
✅ Right to shelter – to live in a home
✅ Right to health – to visit a doctor or clinic
✅ Right to be treated equally – to not be judged by your gender, colour, or religion
✅ Right to choose your religion – to go to any church or pray in your own way
✅ Right to express yourself – to speak and be listened to

🧠 Think: What are three rights that you enjoy every day?

🧑🏽‍🦽 Who May Be Treated Unfairly?

Sadly, some people are discriminated against, which means they are not treated equally or with respect.

This happens to:

• Girls (not allowed to go to school in some places)

• Poor children

• Disabled people (e.g., cannot access buildings)

• People of a certain skin colour or religion

• Sick people or those with HIV/AIDS

💬 “Discrimination is when people are treated unfairly just because they are different.”

🚫 What Happens When Rights Are Denied?

If people are not given their rights, they may:

• Live in poverty

• Miss school or be forced to work

• Go hungry or sleep in the streets

• Become sick without help

• Turn to begging or stealing

🕊️ How Religion Helps Protect People’s Rights

Many religions teach people to:

• Treat others with kindness and respect

• Care for the sick, poor, and orphans

• Build schools and clinics

• Live in peace and unity

💛 Why Are Human Rights Important?

Human rights help us to:

• Live peacefully

• Go to school

• Get help when we are sick

• Be protected from harm

• Be treated fairly, no matter who we are

🌱 "Every child deserves to grow in love, peace, and safety."

📝 Activities to Try!

1. Draw pictures showing your top 3 human rights

2. Write a short story about a child who is treated unfairly — and how it can be made right

3. Act out: A scene where someone is denied a right and another person stands up for them

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