Dates of human rights Aitor Larrea

By gelarako
  • Jan 1, 1215

    Magma Charta

    Magma Charta, made by
    King John of England and the
    nobles of the country:
    “rulers are not above the law”.

  • United States of America´s declaration of independence

    the United States of America’s
    Declaration of Independence stated that
    “All men are created equal”.

  • Declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

    anti-monarchy protesters wrote the
    “Declaration of the Rights of Man and
    the Citizen”.

  • bill of rights

    Over 200 women met at Seneca Falls,
    USA, wrote a “bill of rights”

  • Abraham Lincoln become USA´s president

    Abraham Lincoln become USA President

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    USA President Abraham Lincoln wrote
    the “Emancipation Proclamation”, which
    declared slaves to be “forever free”.

  • Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

    In the USA Abraham Lincoln was assassinated

  • organized an international peace conference

    In 1919, after the end of World War I, Britain, France and the USA organized an international peace conference in Paris.

  • The League of Nations opened

    The League of Nations at its opening session in
    Geneva on November 15, 1920

  • exterminate men and women

    From 1933, the Nazi government began to exterminate men and
    women with mental or physical disabilities, and to persecute minority
    groups, including Jews and gypsies.

  • reduced to ruins

    Warsaw (Poland) is reduced to ruins by the German military forces,

  • Four freedoms

    In 1941, US President Roosevelt
    declared that “four freedoms” were essential for all people

  • The end of the war

    The war ended in 1945, but a long time before the leaders had declared their commitment to human rights.

  • League of Nations was replaced by the United Nations Organization,

    In 1945, the League of Nations was replaced by the United Nations. Organization, which drew up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • The declaration was signed up

    The declaration was signed up in 1948. Since then, human rights ideas have been encouraged in many different ways.

  • Holding the Universal Declarationof Human Rights as aposter in English

    Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President of the United States, holding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a poster in English, in November 1949 .

  • Independence from their European colonial

    In the 1950s and 60s, leaders of Asian and African countries began to demand independence from their European colonial rulers, and many based their campaigns in human rights ideas, like Mahatma Gandhi and his fight for Indian independence from British rule.

  • Feminist movements

    From 1960s to the 1990s, feminist
    movements campaigned from women’s
    rights.

  • Liberation movements inSouth America

    In the 1970s, liberation movements in
    South America demanded freedom
    from dictatorship.