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Human Rights — Key Documents and Events

Foundational human rights milestones in modern history

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1948 UN document establishing fundamental rights for all people
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Geneva Conventions
International treaties setting standards of humanitarian treatment in war
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Nuremberg Code
1947 ethical standards for human experimentation following Nazi war crimes
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Convention on the Rights of the Child
1989 UN treaty protecting children's rights worldwide
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Apartheid
South African system of racial segregation dismantled in 1994
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Rwandan Genocide
1994 mass killing of Tutsi people in Rwanda; ~800,000 killed in 100 days
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ICC
International Criminal Court; prosecutes war crimes, crimes against humanity
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
U.S. law prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or origin
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Women's Suffrage
Movement granting women the right to vote; 19th Amendment in U.S. (1920)
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Abolition
Movement to end slavery; U.S. abolished with 13th Amendment in 1865
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Refugee
Person forced to flee their country due to persecution or conflict
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Asylum
Protection granted by a country to someone fleeing persecution
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Nelson Mandela
Anti-apartheid leader; first Black president of South Africa; 27 years imprisoned
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Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani activist for girls' education; youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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United Nations
Intergovernmental organization founded 1945 to maintain peace and human rights