Human+Right+Heroes+&+Villans

**__CREATE A PROFILE ON A HUMAN RIGHT HERO__**

 * Below is a list of famous Human Right Activists**


 * Choose a Human Right Hero from the list below to research further. You can use the links as a starting point for your research.

You are to create a profile of your hero which must include the following ;**
 * **Full Name**
 * **Date of Birth**
 * **Place of Birth**
 * **Brief Description of their education and early life experiences.**
 * **Explain whose rights they were fighting for.**
 * **Outline their achievements.**
 * **Provide a quote which sums up their beliefs.**
 * **Provide a picture of either your human right hero or an image related to their achievements.**

Either complete your profile in your notes or word process it on a word document.


 * //Profile due Thursday 2nd July at the end of the lesson//**


 * LIST OF FAMOUS HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVISTS - use the website link as a starting point for your research.**

Was an indian social reformer who believed in non-violent protest to achieve change. He helped India gain independence from Britain and worked to free Inida from the caste system.
 * [[image:http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:z-0vqvc0E0IFMM:http://wlajw.caloucaera.net/images/gandhi.jpg width="81" height="128" align="left" link="http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://wlajw.caloucaera.net/images/gandhi.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ptcruiser292.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_archive.html&usg=__NfYEGWbLQdraACa10BhTuHadh4w=&h=456&w=288&sz=42&hl=en&start=6&tbnid=z-0vqvc0E0IFMM:&tbnh=128&tbnw=81&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMohandas%2BGandhi%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG"]]Mohandas Gandhi** - []

Was an African American Civil RIghts Leader who worked for better conditions for his people using non-violent methods. He did much to end segregation in the USA but lost is life from an assassin's bullet.
 * [[image:http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:fefTvlEYMWzPLM:https://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/2008-04-dr-martin-luther-king-jr.jpg width="86" height="137" align="left" link="http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=https://www.amoeba.com/dynamic-images/blog/2008-04-dr-martin-luther-king-jr.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.amoeba.com/blog/2009/02/jamoeblog/black-history-month-a-convict-s-perspective-x-raided-pt-i.html&usg=__P9ZvM668lq7VhnoQ-9b-TnvCwOc=&h=682&w=500&sz=59&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=fefTvlEYMWzPLM:&tbnh=139&tbnw=102&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMartin%2BLuther%2BKing%2BJnr%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den"]]Martin Luther King Jnr** - []

She is famous for helping the sick and the improvished in the slums of Calcutta, India. She established missionaries of charity, which now operate throughout the world.
 * [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:7_iUJTMKd4E-VM:http://www.sbarnabas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/mother_teresa.jpg width="86" height="115" align="left" link="http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sbarnabas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/mother_teresa.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sbarnabas.com/blog/category/facts-about-faith/&usg=__9KNiIciujexgpLWeEtYuxlUFfyg=&h=288&w=216&sz=14&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=7_iUJTMKd4E-VM:&tbnh=115&tbnw=86&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMother%2BTeresa%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG"]]Mother Teresa** - []

**Dame Whina Cooper** []

Dame Whina was very active in the 1940s through to the 1970s campaigning for better rights for Maori people. She sought out better living conditions and employment opportunities for urban Maori. Whina Cooper is perhaps best known for leading the famous 1975 Land March from Te Hapua (in the far north) to Parliament in Wellington. The march was organised by Maori groups opposed to the further loss of their land.


 * [[image:http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:hmC1-ioiSdpRYM:http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/abraham-lincoln/pictures/abraham-lincoln-625.jpg width="102" height="140" align="left" link="http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/abraham-lincoln/pictures/abraham-lincoln-625.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/abraham-lincoln/abraham-lincoln-portrait.htm&usg=__ZI14gvJbmk-9kO0z2U4bNkipA8I=&h=834&w=625&sz=58&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=hmC1-ioiSdpRYM:&tbnh=144&tbnw=108&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAbraham%2BLincoln%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den"]]Abraham Lincoln** - []

America's 16th President, assassinated five days into his presidency. Abraham Lincoln is best known for his fight to abolish slavery in the Southern States of America, and the emanicipation proclaimation which legally freed slaves.

**Nelson Mandela** - [] He fought against the racist aparthied laws in South Africa and was imprisoned for 29 years for his opposition against the South African Government. He was released from prison in 1990 and became the President of South Africa in 1993.

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery, she escaped and then helped set up the "underground railway" which was a series of safe houses to help slaves escape from the Southern States to North America.
 * Harriet Tubman** - [|**http://www.betterworld.net/heroes/tubman.htm**]

**Rosa Parks** - [] Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery 1954. This sparked off a huge bus boycott and was the first successful mass protest and started the Black Civil Rights movement in the USA.

**Oskar Schindler** - [] [] Oskar Schindler was a Nazi Party member and a businessman during WW2. He employed Jews in his factory because they were a cheap labour force. He then realised the astrocities committed by the Nazis and spent every last penny on trying to save the Jews that worked for him. He succeeded in saving approximately 1200 from their death.

**Sir Edmund Hillary** - [] []

After conquering Mt Everest in 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary returned to Nepal to help build schools for the Sherpa people. The Himalayan Trust was established to help raise money to provide more schools, hospitals and clinics for the Sherpa people.

**Kate Sheppard** - [] [] Kate became the leader of the fight to win the right for women to vote in elections. She organised petitions to Parliament asking for the right to vote for women. In 1893 women were finally given the right to vote in elections. New Zealand had become the first country in which all women had the right to vote

Sir Bob is famous for his music but also for campaigning against poverty and famine in Africa. In 1984 he organised //Band Aid and Live Aid// concerts to raise the awareness of the starving children in Africa. Twenty years later in he organised the L//ive 8// concerts to again bring the issues of poverty to the forefront of peoples minds.
 * [[image:http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos2/bob%20geldof.jpg width="132" height="170" align="left"]]Sir Bob Geldof** []

**William Wilberforce** [] Wilberforce campaigned for the abolishment of the Slave Trade. For 18 years he regularly introduced anti-slavery bills into the British Parliament. Slave trading was finally abolished in 1807.


 * [[image:http://www.tiritiowaitangi.govt.nz/images/quotes/PAColl-5584-58.jpg align="left"]]Princess Te Puea Herangi [])**

Daughter of the Maori King, Te Puea focussed on improving economic conditions for Tainui. She helped set up a Tainui settlement at Ngaruawahia, and a new marae called Turangawaewae.