History of Human Rights: 1648-1948

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    History of Human Rights

  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights
    The bill of rights is an act English Parliament passed on 1689. It is an act which establisded English Parliamency democracy and finished the absolutism of England.
    The contents of Bill of Rights contents of Bill of Rights
  • Bourgeois Rights

    Bourgeois Rights
    The Awakening of the Third Estate. This is a political cartoon showing Church and Nobility recoiling in fear from Third Estate throwing off manacles during the Revolution; after the siege of the Bastille.
  • The start of Women's Human Rights

    The start of Women's Human Rights
    Mary Wollstonecraft is a women who first spoke up for the women's human rights. The book she wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman shows that women is not inferior to men and they need to deserve similar education.
  • Children Rights

    Children Rights
    Mule Scavengers is from ‘History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain (1835) by Edward Baines During the industrialization, the child labor was prevalent which made the children to work in a dangerous situations.
  • Proletariat Rights

    Proletariat Rights
    The Bolshevik. The author of this picture is Boris Kustodiev. He depicts the Bolshevik Revolution as a delightful and full of hope for the Proletariat.
  • People's rights - Dignity

    People's rights - Dignity
    Child survivors of Auschwitz photograped by Alexander Voronozow.
    Adolf Hitler and Nazi did genocide by mass-murdering Jews, people with disabilities, homosexuals and etc. They did ‘holocaust’ based on biased ideology about race and blood, German supremacy.
    The children in this picture are survivors from holocaust in Auschwitz prison. We could know the horrendousness of holocaust and lessons that we shouldn’t repeat the terrible history from the appearance, face and atmosphere of this picture.