Timeline human rigths contribuation

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Moses

    He led the people of Israel out of Egypt where they had been slaves and eventually to freedom in Israel.
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    Thomas Paine

    He was an English writer famous for his writing about America and France revolution. He thought the government protect the rights of one of the first campaign.
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    Mary Wollstonecraft

    She was an English writer. She was known as the mother of feminism, she wrote a book called Vindication of the Women Rights. Not only that, but she was critical of societies that encouraged women.
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    Elizabeth Fry

    Elizabeth Fry lived in London. She gave her time helping the women's prisons conditions by providing clothes. She also campaigned for change in the low to prison conditions and death penalty. Also for the homeless in London.
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    Jean-Henrei Dunant

    He was a humanitarian businessman in Switzerland. He was witnessing the aftermath of the battle of Solferino in 1859, and organized volunteers to help the wonder. Not only that, but he worked to establish the international committee of the Red Cross.
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    Mohandas karamchand gandhi

    He was a political and spiritual leader in India's struggle for independence of Britain. He used non-violent means of protestant, such as fasting and boycott of British good and British institutions.