Timeline 2

  • Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly

  • Amnesty International was launched to aid politicial and religious prisoners

  • Equal pay act guarentees women equalmpay for equal work

  • Civil Rights act outlaws jobbb discrimination

  • Voting Act allows African Americans to register to vote

  • Civil Rights act prohibits discrimination in housing and real esate

  • United States, USSR, Canada, and the 32 European states signed the Helsinki Accords

  • Amnesty Internation won Nobel peace prize

  • American Convention on Human Rights was set forth.

  • Civil Rights act ease burden on workers suing to prove job discrimination

  • the UN General Assembly recommited its efforts to the spirit of human rights by creating the UN Commission on Human Rights