Civil society

Do you know civil society?

Look at the following photographs and try to connect them with the names of people or related events.

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Choose answer Nelson Mandela Occupy movement Amnesty International Martin Luther King Jr. Eleanor Roosevelt Suffragettes

Correct answer: Suffragettes

Suffragettes - women fighting for their right to vote.

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Choose answer Eleanor Roosevelt Martin Luther King Jr. Amnesty International Nelson Mandela Occupy movement Suffragettes

Correct answer: Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. - an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.

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Choose answer Occupy movement Martin Luther King Jr. Eleanor Roosevelt Amnesty International Nelson Mandela Suffragettes

Correct answer: Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela - South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who served as the President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was South Africa's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.

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Choose answer Nelson Mandela Suffragettes Martin Luther King Jr. Amnesty International Occupy movement Eleanor Roosevelt

Correct answer: Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. The Declaration represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.

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Choose answer Suffragettes Nelson Mandela Martin Luther King Jr. Eleanor Roosevelt Occupy movement Amnesty International

Correct answer: Amnesty International

Amnesty International - non-governmental organisation focusing on human rights with over 3 million members and supporters around the world.

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Choose answer Suffragettes Occupy movement Eleanor Roosevelt Martin Luther King Jr. Nelson Mandela Amnesty International

Correct answer: Occupy movement

Occupy movement - an international protest movement against perceived social and economic inequality, its primary goal being to make the economic and political relations in all societies less vertically hierarchical and more flatly distributed.

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Questions to reflect on

• From your own experience, experience of your family or friends or information from social media, what do you know about the non-democratic regimes existing in the past or presence?
• Do you know about any human rights violations around you nowadays? If yes, does civil society deal with them?