Human Rights Timeline 1795 BC

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Human Rights Timeline1795 BC present
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• The Laws of Hammurabi
• 17951750BC
• Iraq
• Make justice reign in the Kingdom, to enlighten
  the country and promote the good of the people
• Hammurabi was the first king of the Babylonian
  Empire and Hammurabi's Code is one of the first
  written codes of law in recorded history. These
  laws were written on a stone tablet standing over
  six feet tall that was found in 1901. The code is
  often pointed to be a primary example of even a
  king not being able to change fundamental laws
  concerning the governing of a country which was
  the primitive form of what is now known as a
  constitution.

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• Buddha
• 550 480 BC
• India
• A spiritual teacher who founded Buddhism, a path
  of spiritual development, open to all races and
  classes.
• Buddhism sees all human beings as equal. Each has
  the potential to realize the truth by his or her
  own will and endeavour, and can help others to
  realize it. Buddhist theory holds that the
  "three poisons" of hatred, greed and delusion are
  at the root of violence in the world .It
  recommends a universal spirit of brotherhood and
  sisterhood.

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• Lao Tse Founder of Daoism
• 500BC
• China
• If there is right in the Soul,
• there will be beauty in the person.
• If there is beauty in the person,
• there will be harmony in the home.
• If there is harmony in the home,
• there will be order in the nation.
• If there is order in the nation,
• there will be peace in the world.

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• 9th Sikh Guru
• 1621 1675 AD
• India
• He was the spiritual leader of the Hindus. He
  believed that all common people should have the
  freedom to practice their faith and the State had
  no right to interfere with peoples peaceful
  faith traditions. Given the choice to either
  accept Islam or face death, the Guru refused to
  surrender and fearlessly accepted beheading
  rather than abandon his commitment to a sacred
  principle.

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• Mohammed the Prophet
• 570 632 AD
• Saudi Arabia
• The founder of the religion of Islam. A major
  part of his mission was to bring peace to the
  world. He strived to convince people that all men
  and women, even if they lived in very different
  regions of the world, and were different from one
  another in colour, culture and language, were in
  fact blood brothers and sisters. The Prophet
  would exhort his followers to live in peace with
  their fellow men, saying, A true believer is one
  with whom others feel secure, one who returns
  love for hatred.

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Jesus of Nazareth also known as Jesus Christ
(7-2 BC/BCE 26-36 AD/CE) Palestine The
central figure of Christianity. His teaching
promoted the sanctity of human life and the value
of those who had commonly been regarded as
inferior women, the poor, ethnic outsiders,
children, prostitutes, the sick, prisoners,
asking for freedom and justice for everyone.
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• Bartolomé de las Casas
• Born 1473
• Spain
• Dominican friar who campaigned against
  colonialism and the exploitation and enslavement
  of indigenous peoples.

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• Beginning of the Slave Trade
• 1444
• Portugal
• Portugal begins sending African slaves to the
  Americas. 10 12 million were sold during the
  Slave Trade. Many millions died in transit.

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• Francois Dominique Toussaint
• LOuverture
• (1743 1803) Haiti
• He was the preeminent figure of the Haitian
  Revolution. A former slave, he became a brilliant
  general, defeating British, Spanish, and French
  troops and emancipating the slave population. His
  extraordinary efforts at reaching across lines of
  race and class set him apart from his
  contemporaries, and his vision of a race-blind,
  independent country of equals was ahead of his
  time.

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• American Declaration of Independence
• 1776
• declared that All men are created equal. Did
  not include women or slaves.

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• Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
• 1789
• France

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• Olympe de Gauges
• 1791
• France
• wrote The Declaration of the Rights of Women

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• Eglantyne Jebb
• 1876 1927
• Britain
• Founded Save the Children and drafted the first
  Declaration on the Rights of the Child

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• All Native American Indians confined to
  reservations
• 1887
• USA

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• Marcus Garvey
• 1887 1940
• USA
• He was the most influential black leader of the
  1920s. He wanted to foster worldwide unity among
  all black people and to establish the greatness
  of the African heritage. Convinced that black
  people could not secure their rights in countries
  where they were a minority race, he urged a "Back
  to Africa" movement which throughout the United
  States, the Caribbean, and Central America.

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• Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
• 1869 1948
• India
• He was the champion of the poor and oppressed and
  struggled for Indias independence using
  non-violent action. His continuous dedication for
  a just society for all make him one of the most
  influential men in the field of human rights.

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• Eleanor Roosevelt
• 1884 1965
• USA
• Helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human
  Rights (1948)

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• Amnesty International set up
• United Kingdom
• 1961

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• African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights
• 1981
• Banjul, Gambia

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• United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
  Child
• 1989

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• UN Decade on Human Rights Education
• 1995 2004
• Kofi Annan was Secretary General of the UN during
  the Decade. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in
  2001.

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• UN Convention on rights of people with
  disabilities came into force 2008
• Ban Ki-Moon succeeded Kofi Annan in 2007 and
  passed several major reforms regarding
  peacekeeping. He has a strong commitment to
  acting on climate change.