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- 13:50, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+4) . . Committee on the International Slave Trade Issue, Congress of Vienna (current)
- 13:44, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+69) . . Committee on the International Slave Trade Issue, Congress of Vienna
- 13:42, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:Slave trade 1815.jpg (current)
- 13:39, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . N File:HR-1948.jpg (current)
- 13:36, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-4) . . A Year for Human Rights
- 13:33, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . A Year for Human Rights
- 13:32, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . A Year for Human Rights
- 13:32, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+73) . . A Year for Human Rights
- 13:24, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+107) . . The French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- 12:00, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,153) . . N Australia Apologizes to The Stolen Generation (Created page with " February 12, 2008 was an iconic day in Australia’s long and checkered history. Australia's Prime-Minister Kevin Rudd apologized to ''The Stolen Generation'' for the regrett...")
- 11:59, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,707) . . N Ongoing Darfur Conflict (Created page with " The Darfur Conflict is an ongoing guerrilla conflict centered in the Darfur region of Sudan. It began in February 2003, when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and Justice a...")
- 11:56, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+579) . . N The Rwandan Genocide (Created page with " In April of 1994 when Juvénal Habyarimana, the President of Rwanda was assassinated. This sparked a massive conflict which led to Rwandan genocide. Habyarimana belonged to ...")
- 11:53, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+682) . . N Bosnia-Herzegovina (Created page with " Slobodan Milosevic seizes power in Serbia in the late 1980's and quickly reignites tensions between Serbs and Muslims. In July 1991, Serbia invades Croatia with the help of S...")
- 11:44, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+716) . . N The Fall of the Berlin Wall (Created page with " In August of 1989 Hungary opened its border with Austria, a flood of East Germans travelled into the West. Meanwhile, protesting students in Leipzig put pressure on the gover...")
- 11:42, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+522) . . N Al-Anfal Campaign, Iraq (Created page with " The al-Anfal Campaign-Iraq genocide targeted the Kurdish population in northern Iraq. Saddam Hussein intended to eradicate every Kurdish village in Iraq, and used a series of...")
- 11:41, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+846) . . N The Organization for African Unity adopts the African Charter of Human and People's Rights (OAU) (Created page with " The Charter was drafted by the African Committee of Human and People's Rights, and unanimously approved by the OAU. Designed to be a similar human rights instrument to those...")
- 11:38, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,759) . . N Latin American Dictatorships end (Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay) (Created page with " '''1982''' Guido Vildoso was appointed interim President of Bolivia, following a number of short-lived dictatorships and military coups, before the democratic election of H...")
- 11:35, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+344) . . N UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (Created page with " The Convention was adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, and is often described as an international bill of rights for women. Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles,...")
- 11:34, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+690) . . N Khmer Rouge, Cambodia (Created page with " In 1975, Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan formed the Khmer Rouge which looked to install a communist way of life without taking any "intermediary steps",...")
- 11:31, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+837) . . N Global Coverage of International Human Rights Issues (Created page with " South Africa was condemned by the international community because of apartheid, and was subject to both economic and cultural boycotts. The 1973 military coup in Chile was f...")
- 11:29, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+483) . . N The Civil Rights Act (Created page with " The Civil Rights Act banned discrimination in voting and jobs, and outlaws racial segregation in schools and other public accommodations. These invalidated the "Jim Crow Laws...")
- 11:28, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+266) . . N Feminist Movements (Created page with " Women were encouraged to understand aspects of their own personal lives as deeply politicised, and reflective of a sexist structure of power, and women's cultural and politic...")
- 11:27, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+379) . . N Establishment of The European Court of Human Rights (Created page with " The Court was established in Strasbourg under the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights in order to monitor respect of human rights by states. All member states of the Co...")
- 11:26, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+578) . . N The Civil Rights Movement, United States (Created page with " The Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by Martin Luther King Jr., was a political and social protest campaign in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of ra...")
- 11:20, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+691) . . N Tibet (Created page with " The People's Republic of China systematically took over Tibet as a means of expansion, despite the fact that Tibet was an autonymous state with a unique culture, language, an...")
- 11:19, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+42) . . A Year for Human Rights
- 11:18, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+2,019) . . N A Year for Human Rights (Created page with " Throughout the year a number of important conventions were adopted by various international organisations, recognising the rights of marginalized, exploited and persecuted gr...")
- 11:15, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+625) . . N Foundation of the International Court of Justice (Created page with " The International Court of Justice is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Its main functions are to settle legal disputes submitted to it by states and to g...")
- 11:13, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+761) . . N Establishment of the United Nations (Created page with " After two months of deliberation at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco, the United Nations (UN) is established by the signing of the...")
- 11:11, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+883) . . N FDR's Four Freedoms Speech (Created page with " United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a speech before the United States Congress, put forward the notion of "Four Freedoms" as rudimentary rights for all mankind:...")
- 11:08, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+613) . . N Nanking (Created page with " On December 13, 1937 the Japanese Military took over the former capital of the Republic of China, Nanking. Japan had waged war in Northeast China and captured several key ci...")
- 11:06, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+975) . . N The Parsley Massacre (Created page with " Dominican President Rafael Trujillo ordered Dominican soldiers to kill the Haitians living along the borderland. The orders were in response to Trujillo's assessment that the...")
- 11:04, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+780) . . N The Holocaust (Created page with " After the Germans were defeated in World War I, Adolf Hitler, a soldier who had fought in World War I, accused the Jewish people of being the reason for Germany losing the wa...")
- 11:01, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,239) . . N The ILO adopts the Convention Concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour (Created page with " An important step towards the condemnation of forced labour was taken by the International Labour Organization. Set up as part of the Treaty of Versailles to protect worker's...")
- 10:56, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,214) . . N The Civil Disobedience Movement and Ghandi's Salt March (Created page with " During colonialism, India was essentially ruled by the British East India Company, which attained almost full control the country by 1856. As a result of the growing national...")
- 10:53, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+883) . . N Soviet Imposed Ukrainian Genocide (Created page with " Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1917, but this autonomy was short lived, as Ukrainians then clashed with Lenin's Red Army. After Lenin's death in 1...")
- 10:49, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+447) . . N The Geneva Conference adopts Slavery Convention (Created page with " After the abolition of slavery in the United States in the late 18th century, it took another almost 50 years to adopt an international convention condemning slavery. This to...")
- 10:48, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+369) . . N The League of Nations adopts the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child (Created page with " In 1924 The League of Nations adopted the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, a declaration that established children?s rights to means for material, moral and spi...")
- 10:47, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+712) . . N The Treaty of Versailles (Created page with " Following the end of World War I, The Treaty of Versailles required that Kaiser Wilhelm II be placed on trial for a "supreme offense against international morality and the sa...")
- 10:43, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+551) . . N Foundation of the International Labour Organization (ILO) (Created page with " In 1919 The International Labour Organization (ILO), was created together with the League of Nations by the Treaty of Versailles. It was established to advocate human rights ...")
- 10:41, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,982) . . N Two Russian Revolutions (Created page with " The Russian army suffered numerous defeats in World War I and were inadequately supplied with supplies. Food shortages hit Russian cities, giving rise to political unrest. In...")
- 10:38, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+675) . . N The Central American Peace Conference (Created page with " Between 14th November and 20th December 1907, following a proposal made by Mexico and the United States, five Central American Nations: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Ho...")
- 10:36, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+654) . . N The Philippine War of Independence (Created page with " In 1902 after the conclusion of the Philippine-American War, the United States began the pacification process of the Philippines as a society. The most notable incident was ...")
- 10:34, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+30) . . Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
- 10:33, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+5) . . Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
- 10:33, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-1) . . Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
- 10:32, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+1,115) . . N Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (Created page with "1863 On 1st January, United States President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that "all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated p...")
- 10:29, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (-46) . . Committee on the International Slave Trade Issue, Congress of Vienna
- 10:29, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+520) . . N Committee on the International Slave Trade Issue, Congress of Vienna (Created page with "As agreed at the first Treaty of Paris in 1814, a congress of the Great Powers of Europe met at Vienna to settle the future boundaries of the continent. Almost every state in ...")
- 10:25, 24 March 2014 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . The French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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