Human Rights Violations by Alex Schefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp English Honors II Gifted en-us 2021-11-12 19:32:29 UTC 2021-11-12 20:31:32 UTC hello@padlet.com No human shall be held as a slave. Slavery in all its forms are prohibited. blueschefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887384157 Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 4]]> 2021-11-12 19:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887384157 “Not far from us, prisoners were at work. Some were digging holes, others were carrying sand. None as much as glanced at us.” blueschefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887386367 "Night" Page 37, Elie Wiesel ]]> 2021-11-12 19:37:17 UTC https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887386367 blueschefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887392260 https://apnews.com/article/asia-china-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-crime-8036cf3f50d08d171bbb359df5dddf46]]> 2021-11-12 19:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887392260 blueschefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887393905 https://www.dw.com/en/uighur-exploitation-in-china-slammed-as-modern-day-slavery/a-55953464]]> 2021-11-12 19:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887393905 blueschefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887401742 Jews persecuted in the Holocaust were forced into concentration camps where they would have to carry out forced labor until their often tragic ends.]]> 2021-11-12 19:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887401742 blueschefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887411725 Chinese Uighurs, members of an ethnic minority who often practice Islam, are currently being persecuted in China. As part of China's current fascist effort to establish a single Chinese culture, any religious and ethnic minorities are being categorized as outsiders who threaten China's purity and power.]]> 2021-11-12 19:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887411725 Sources blueschefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887416552 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/uighurs/]]> 2021-11-12 19:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887416552 blueschefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887428526 China is forcing Uighurs into interment camps where they are being tortured mentally and physically. The point of these camps is to erase Uighur culture and assimilate the Uighur people into the dominant Chinese culture. ]]> 2021-11-12 20:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887428526 blueschefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887450493 Uighurs are systematically being forced into factory and farming positions across China in the largest mass detention of an ethno-religious group since World War II. Atrocities such as these are crimes against humanity. ]]> 2021-11-12 20:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887450493 blueschefter https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887456562 This assignment has taught me that it's up to humans to protect our fellow man and understand that we are all the same. We can't continue to allow these atrocities to occur.]]> 2021-11-12 20:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/blueschefter/t51kd5ze0ek4pgrp/wish/1887456562