Questions for the Stolen Generation Project

1.    Who is involved in the kidnapping?
2.    What where the other countries involvement?
3.    What was the role of the church in Australia?
4.    Did the kids want to learn about the white culture?
5.    Why where they doing this?
6.    Where they given equal treatment from the white kids?
7.    Where they taking the children because of law, or was it against the law?
8.    How does this incident reflect the separation between cultures?
9.    Is there a better or worse culture?
10.    How does this differ from the education in the U.S.?  There are still equal requirements of every child?  We don’t get to pick what kind of educaion to receive till college.  Also you have to pay extra for a different kind of education, but it is still available.
11.    What is everyone had the same education already?
12.    What was the role of the government in Australia?

http://reconciliaction.org.au/nsw/education-kit/stolen-generations/
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Articles to use in paper

Article 9.

•    No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 12.

    * No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 26.

    * (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
    * (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
    * (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

International Human Rights

1.   I am interested in researching the "stolen generation" in Australia.  This topic has interested me since I saw the movie Australia and I could not believe that the government was kidnapping the children and training them to become part of the white people.  I am insterested in furthuring my knowledge on the rights that where violated and what was occuring at the time.
2.  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998067,00.html
http://www.culturewars.org.uk/2002-12/stolengeneration.htm
3.  Exactly what rights were violate here?  Why was this not stopped?