Insert necessary words and word-combinations into the stories. Who tells these stories? What steps must be made internationally to maintain their rights?

a) captured, incapable of military service, wounded, rights

War is terrible. I was … in a night battle. My leg was bleeding and hand couldn’t move. I stayed on the field and waited for death. In a few hours, at dawn, I was … and taken to some place where I saw many wounded men …. Do we have any…? What will be with us?

b) rights, equal, religion and language, few, accepted, enjoy

We are too … here. I mean in this country. We have almost no …. Our … differ from those of the majority of this country, and this may be the reason that we are not … willingly by people and authorities here. We are not… before the law with them and we do not… the same political and civil rights as they do.

c) endowed with, enforced, slaves, work, protect

We … nearly day and night. We sleep very little, we almost always work. We are … no rights. Our labour is … and our master can sell any of us any moment. We are just …, and I am not sure that there is anybody who can… us.

From the text of Section 2 you know that the bodies which guarantee the fundamental rights and freedoms stipulated by the Constitution are: the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine, the Authorized Representative of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Human Rights, the Cabinet of Ministers, and other bodies of central executive power, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, offices of the Prosecutor General, courts, local power and local self governments, advocates offices and other law-enforcement bodies. How can these organs protect and guarantee human rights and freedoms in fact?

IV. WRITING

If you had a right to participate in drafting the new Universal Declaration of Human Rights, what Articles would you suggest? What groups of world population are discriminated presently? Think about at least 5 Articles and write them down in English.

V. OVER TO YOU

Express your thoughts on the subject.

A) How do you understand the term “humanity” in international aspect?

B) Can we say that slave trade and enforced labour are eliminated in modern society?

C) What are the main non-property possessions of a person?

I. WARMING-UP

What do you know about international and regional organizations and their programs on human rights. Prove that these organizations play an important role in the life of humanity.

2. Match the following English words and expressions with their Ukrainian equivalents:

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