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Over 200 women met at Seneca Falls, USA, to write a "bill of rights" detailing the social, civil and religious rights of women.
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During the 20th century, a succession of wars and revolutions made many peolpe keen to develop international organications that would work to reduce conflicts, and help civilians.
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"Education is the most powerful weapon wich you can use to change the world."
"If you talk to a man in a lenguage he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his lengauge, that goes to his heart." -
After the World War I, Britain, France and the USA organized an international peace conference in Paris. This was the first time ever that a country's war lider had been accused of crimes against human rights.
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"I have a dream"
"If you can't fly,then run,
if you can't run, then walk,
if you can't walk, then crawl,
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From 1933, the Nazi covenment began to exterminate men and women with mental and physical disabilties, and to persecute minority groups including Jews and gypsies
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World War II began in 1939, with Britain, France, Russia and later USA, fighting against Nazi Germany and its allies Italy and Japan.
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US president Roosevelt declared that "four freedoms" were essential for all people. Freedoms were: religion, speech, wat and fear,
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World War II ended in 1945 but, log before that, govenment leaders had declared their commitment to human rights.
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In 1945, the League of Nations was repeclaced by the United Nations Organizaton, which drew up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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The declaration was signed up in 1948. Since then, human rights ideas have been encouraged in many different ways.
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In the 1950s and 60s, leaders of Asian and African countries began to demand independence from their European conolian rulers, and many based their compaigns in human rights ideas, like Mahatma Gandhi and his fight for Indian independence from British rule.
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From 1960s to 1990s, feminist movements campaigned for wormen's rights.
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In the 1970, liberation movements in South America demanded freedom from dictatorship.
