Global Citizenship for Human Rights - Human Rights Heroes

  OSCAR ARIAS S Á NCHEZ (b. 1941) 1987 Nobel Peace Prize-winner and former President of Costa Rica, Arias was recognised for his work brokering peace during civil war in Central America. Oscar Arias was born in Costa Rica in 1941. When he was a child, Costa Rica became the first country to disband its standing army, allowing it to invest in education, healthcare and the environment. He studied law and economics in Costa Rica, the United States, and the United Kingdom, eventually receiving a doctorate in economics. He joined the Social Democratic Party and became a member of the government in the 1970s. Oscar Arias Sánchez won the respect of leaders and humanitarians everywhere for bringing peace to Central America. Elected President of Costa Rica in 1986 amid a civil war in neighbouring Nicaragua, Arias Sánchez immediately put the world on notice that he intended to restore peace in Central America by disentangling the region from the Cold War between the United States an...

  ROSA PARKS (1913-2005) Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist who became famous for taking a stand - by sitting down. Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. Her quiet courageous act changed America, its view of black people and redirected the course of history. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher. At the age of two she moved to her grandparents’ farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. At the age of 11 she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls (Miss White’s School for Girls), a private school founded by liberal-minded women from the northern United...

  C ÉSAR CH ÁVEZ (1927-1993) A true American hero, Cesar Chavez was a civil rights, Latino and farm labor leader; a genuinely religious and spiritual figure; a community organizer and social entrepreneur; a champion of militant nonviolent social change; a crusader for the environment and consumer rights; and civil rights activist who brought about better conditions for agricultural workers. A first-generation American, he was born on March 31, 1927 near his family’s small homestead outside Yuma, Arizona. At age 11, his family lost their farm during the Great Depression and became migrant farm workers. Cesar finished his formal education after the eighth grade and worked the fields full-time to help support his family. Throughout his youth and into adulthood, Cesar traveled the migrant streams throughout California laboring in the fields, orchards and vineyards where he was exposed to the hardships and injustices of farm worker life. Chávez witnessed the harsh conditions farm...

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