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| colspan="4" | [[:Category:Human Rights & Global Peace|Human Rights & Global Peace]] | | colspan="4" | [[:Category:Human Rights & Global Peace|Human Rights & Global Peace]] | ||
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− | | style="width: 100%; padding:5px; border:1px solid #ddd; font-size:65%; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-align:justify; font-weight:normal; vertical-align:top;"| In August 1798, born from the tumult of the French Revolution, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen took the first step towards enshrining in law the concept that the individual and collective rights of man were universal and subject to protection. | + | | style="width: 100%; padding:5px; border:1px solid #ddd; font-size:65%; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-align:justify; font-weight:normal; vertical-align:top;"| In August 1798, born from the tumult of the French Revolution, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen took the first step towards enshrining in law the concept that the individual and collective rights of man were universal and subject to protection. Although a product of the philosophical developments of the eighteenth-century enlightenment and limited in its scope to protecting the rights of male, French citizens, the Declaration can be considered the first attempt to politically redress the denial of man's natural freedoms. In the two centuries since the French Revolution, the attempt to expand the conception of human rights to encompass a universal standard and to protect those rights from abuse is ongoing. Internationally, we have witnessed moments of advance, but also of regression in the protection of personal freedoms and civil liberties throughout the world. |
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+ | Spanning a century and the Atlantic Ocean, the fight to abolish slavery shaped the nineteenth-century. From 1815, when the Congress of Vienna condemned the international slave trade, to 1865, when the thirteenth amendment was finally passed into law in the United States of America, individuals and organisations sought to gain support for the abolition of an institution that denied the very humanity of those labelled 'slave'. In England, William Wilberforce worked tirelessly for the support of the British government in banning the slave trade in the British Empire, a motion approved by the British Parliament in 1807... [http://www.i-c-d.de/index.php/Category:Human_Rights_%26_Global_Peace More...] | ||
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