The right to clean water
“The United Nations General Assembly explicitly
"The human right to water entitles everyone to
sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible
and affordable water for personal and domestic
uses", UN CESC - General Comment 15, para.2
Currently, 664 million people live without safe access to
clean water
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Water, thirst, dehydration
The right to health
The human right to health means that everyone
has the right to the highest attainable standard
of physical and mental health, which includes
access to all medical services, sanitation,
adequate food, decent housing, healthy working
conditions, and a clean environment. - WHO
Constitution.
Every year, 13 million children under five years
of age dies from illnesses that could have been
treated.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Hospital, Doctor, Sick,
Illness, Health, Medicine.
The right to a clean and safe environment
A safe, clean, healthy and sustainable
environment is integral to the full enjoyment of a
wide range of human rights, including the rights
to life, health, food, water and sanitation. . - UN
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the
environment.
Global warming is already threatening to flood
inhabited coastal regions and increase droughts
in areas that already poor and vulnerable. It is
also estimated that air pollution alone kills over 2
million people each year.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Pollution, environment,
global warming, ecology, drought, flood.
The right to sanitation
recognized the human right to water and sanitation and
acknowledged that clean drinking water and sanitation
are essential to the realisation of all human rights. The
Resolution calls upon States and international
organisations (…) to provide safe, clean, accessible and
affordable drinking water and sanitation for all.” -
Resolution A/RES/64/292. United Nations General
Assembly, July 2010
Currently 2.4 billion lack basic sanitation facilities, such
as toilets. Every year, 1.5 million people, mostly
children, die from diseases directly linked to poor
hygiene and sanitation.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Water, Toilet, Plumbing, Soap,
Drink
The right to freedom of speech
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and
expression; this right includes freedom to hold
opinions without interference and to seek,
receive and impart information and ideas
through any media and regardless of frontiers. -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In 2015, 199 journalists worldwide were jailed
for speaking out against their governments.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Freedom of speech,
newspaper, journalists, opinion, publish.
The right to education
Everyone has the right to education (...).
Technical and professional education shall be
made generally available and higher education
shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of
merit. - Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Article 26
More than 72 million school-age children
worldwide are not in school, and over 759
million adults cannot read or write.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: School, education, teacher,
learn/learning.
 The right to freedom of religion and conscience
Everyone shall have the right to freedom of
thought, conscience and religion. This right shall
include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or
belief of his choice, and freedom, either
individually or in community with others and in
public or private, to manifest his religion or belief
in worship, observance, practice and teaching. -
Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights
Up to 76 % of the world’s population live in
countries with restrictions on religious beliefs, and
being an atheist is still punishable by death in 13
countries.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Religion, worship, praying,
God, name of any religion or atheism, church,
mosque, temple
The right to a fair trial
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and
public hearing by an independent and impartial
tribunal, in the determination of his rights and
obligations and of any criminal charge against
him. - UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
article 10
There are currently over 40,000 cases of
unresolved enforced disappearances worldwide ;
that is when “people literally disappear (…) when
state officials (or someone acting with state consent)
grab them from the street or from their homes and
then deny it, or refuse to say where they are”
(Amnesty International).
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Trial, judge, jury, police,
prison.
The right to love and marriage
Men and women of full age, without any limitation
due to race, nationality or religion, have the right
to marry and to found a family. They are entitled
to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage
and at its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered
into only with the free and full consent of the
intending spouses. - UN Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
Every year over 11 million girls under the age of
18 are forced into a marriage, and homosexuality
is still illegal in 76 countries.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Love, sex, homosexual,
heterosexual, marry/marriage.
Equal participation in political and public affairs
The right to directly and indirectly participate in
political and public life is important in empowering
individuals and groups, and is one of the core
elements of human rights-based approaches
aimed at eliminating marginalization and
discrimination. - UN Office of the High
Commissioner of Human Rights
According to the Democracy Index, more than half
of the world population live in countries with no or
severely restricted opportunity to influence on the
local and national level.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Vote, democracy,
politics/political, oppression
Women’s rights and Gender Equality
Gender equality is at the very heart of human rights and
United Nations values. A fundamental principle of the
United Nations Charter adopted by world leaders in
1945 is "equal rights of men and women", and
protecting and promoting women's human rights is the
responsibility of all States. - UN Office of the High
Commissioner of Human Rights
According to the Global Gender Gap Index, men’s
worldwide average income equals nearly double that
of women. In 155 countries, women still face legal
obstacles in the workplace. Women’s access to
education is severely restricted, and two thirds of the
world’s illiterate are women.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Women/woman,
men/man, boy/boys, girl/girls, gender, equality,
discrimination.
Right to seek asylum
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in
other countries asylum from persecution. -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Currently, over 60 million people worldwide are
displaced due to conflict and persecution. So
far, in this year only, 2500 refugees have
drowned in the Mediterranean due to the lack
of safe passage to seek asylum in Europe.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Refugee, asylum,
migration.
Right to Housing
The human right to adequate housing is more than just
four walls and a roof. It is the right of every woman,
man, youth and child to gain and sustain a safe and
secure home and community in which to live in peace
and dignity - UN Office of the High Commissioner on
Human Rights
An estimated 100 million people are homeless
worldwide.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: House, home, homeless,
shelter
Ethnic and racial discrimination
Racial discrimination is when a person is treated
less favourably than another person in a similar
situation because of their race, colour, descent,
national or ethnic origin or immigrant status. -
Australian Human Rights Committee
Even in the EU, discrimination based on ethnic
origins is the most widespread form of
discrimination, accounting for 64 % of all cases
of discrimination. Currently, over 22 million
people worldwide have been made refugees by
ethnic or nationalistic conflicts.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Race/racism,
ethnic/ethnicity, discrimination.
Right to protest and Freedom of Association
These rights protect people’s ability to come
together and work for the common good. They are
a vehicle for the exercise of many other civil,
cultural, economic, political and social rights,
allowing people to express their political opinions,
engage in artistic pursuits, engage in religious
observances, form and join trade unions, elect
leaders to represent their interests and hold them
accountable. - UN Special Rapporteur
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Union, group, party,
team, society, community.
Right to protection from torture
No one should be exposed to torture or other cruel
actions. - Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Torture still happens in 141 countries according to
Amnesty (2014). Amnesty reports 27 forms of
torture that are still being practiced, including
electric shocks, mock executions, water torture, rape
and sexual violence and the pulling of teeth.
FORBIDDEN WORDS: Torture, pain, waterboarding,
interrogation