Psychology of Human Rights and Democracy

Question 1: SO1: Demonstrate understanding of the different schools of thought in the human rights and democratic field
Select one of the different schools of thought that you associate yourself with most. For example, you are a person with an activist type of personality who always fight for something –for yourself and others. You will thus see yourself as somebody aligned with the Protest School of Thought.
Explain the selected school of thought.
(1)
Motivate why you selected your choice.
(1)
Compare it to at least with one other school of thought.
(4)
Selection:
Motivation:
School of thought: Compared with:
Question 2: SO2: Provide a historical perspective of human rights and democracy SO3:
Describe the instruments that developed in response to human rights violations
Discuss one gross human right violation in history and discuss one factor that lead to the development of human right instruments. (Note: a human right violation is for instance the Holocaust and factors include: political, socio, economical, environmental, etc).
Discussion of Violation Discussion of Factor:
Question 3. Taking in consideration the Universal Declaration of Human Rights discuss how human rights and democratic principles and values affect individual behavior and attitudes in your community. Discuss eight principles and values.
Question 4. Taking in consideration Chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1994, discuss the actions against foreign immigrants (Xenophobia) in South Africa as human rights violation. Recommend human rights response by referring to the Bill and other possible
interventions.
Question 5. Taking in consideration Chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1994, evaluate the adequacy of interventions against farm murders in South Africa.
Recommend a human rights response to the actions in terms of legislation and instruments used.
Question 6. Discuss human rights and democracy in terms of historical, moral,
philosophical or religious basis.
Historical Moral Philosophical Religious Human Rights Basic rights and
freedoms to which all humans are entitled.
Democracy Rule within limits set by constitutional law and citizen’s
rights.
Question 7. Select one of the 30 rights from the simplified version below and role play a situation in which your rights were violated.