Empowering Global Citizens

Examples may include the case of Brazil, where priesrs were excluded from
the right to vote, and the events that led to formal universal suffrage in India
(e.g., the creation of the Indian constitution after independence).

Resources

1. This table of universal suffrage by country, which the students can
use to examine the discrepancies between male and female suffrage
across the world
http://en.wikipedia.0rg/wiki/UniversaLsuffrage

2. Recent news items associated with granting women the right to vote
in the UAE and Kuwait as recently as 2005

3. An excellent site that includes lots of child—friendly information about
women’s role in political participation across the world through dif-
ferent case studies and a time line of different suffragist movements
across the world to ensure that suffrage is inclusive of women

http://womenshistory.about.com

Activity 7.2.5

Universal suffrage through the UDHR

The students are introduced to article 21 of the UDHR and particularly to
section 3: “The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of gov—
ernment; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which
shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by

equivalent free voting procedures.”

The following key ideas (among others) should be highlighted in this

discussion:

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