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Declaration of Human Rights
The Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. It was from the experience of World War 2. It represents the first global expression which many people believe to be the rights that many Americans are inherently entitled. -
APUSH Review: Civil Rights in the 1950s
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National Liberation
The National Liberation has to deal with the movement that arises in developing nations to expel colonists powers. Some of these liberation wars were either vocally or materially supported by the Soviet Union. However, this did not guarantee Soviet influence in some countries. Also increasingly in competition to the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China presented themselves as models of independent nationalist development. -
ILO Convention Concerning Abolition of Forced Labour
Each member of the International Labour Organisation which ratifies this Convention undertakes to suppress and not to make any form of forced labour as of means to labour discipline, as punishment for having participated in strikes and as means of racial, social, national or religious discrimination. -
European Convention on Human Rights
Drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe. Any person who feels his or her rights have been violated under the convention by a state party can take a case to the Court. -
Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
The inter-American Court is one of the most bodies the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human rights. The IACHR is a permanent body, with headquarters in Washington, D.C., United States, and it meets in regular and special sessions several times a year to examine allegations of human rights violation.
