Lesson on Severe Income Inequality & Human Rights
Severe Income Inequality and Human Rights Main reading materials Part 1: Warm Up Questions If you could guaranteed every-single human being just 6 human rights, what would those rights be? Why? Currently, human rights are not applied equally and without discrimination to all people. What kind of changes within humanity do you think are required to correct this situation? What do you think is a better measurement of equality/inequality, an individual’s total wealth or his/her annual income? Why? Part 2: Conversation Speaker 1: Hey (speaker 1’s name)! Do you think you could help me with my assignment? I’m writing an essay on income inequality, what causes it and how it affects societies. The problem is, I have no idea why so many people in the world are so poor. Speaker 2: Sure (speaker 2’s name). First of all, in order to find the cause of a big problem within humanity, the first thing we want to do is bring the issue back to the small of ourselves ...