human rights

(noun)

The basic rights and freedoms that all humans should be guaranteed, such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.

Examples of human rights in the following topics:

  • The Promotion of Global Human Rights

    • The inclusion of Human Rights in U.S.
    • The inclusion of Human Rights in U.S.
    • Foreign Policy towards the inclusion of Human Rights concerns.
    • Derian as Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and in August 1977, had the post elevated to that of Assistant Secretary of State.
    • Contrast the differing stances of the Executive and Congressional branch on the promotion of human rights in foreign policy in the 1970s.

  • Foreign Policies

    • His dedication to peace and human rights significantly changed the way that the United States conducted its foreign affairs.
    • Derian as Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and in August of 1977, he had the post elevated to that of Assistant Secretary of State.
    • Carter’s attempt at a foreign policy built on the principle of human rights also prompted much criticism, however.
    • Many in his own administration were opposed to these initiatives, and the more assertive human rights policy of the Carter years was blunted by the discord that ensued between, on one hand, Derian and State Department Policy Planning Director Anthony Lake, who endorsed human rights considerations as an enhancement of U.S. diplomatic effectiveness abroad, and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, who held Cold War considerations as paramount.
    • Though met with mixed results during his presidency, in 1982, Carter established the Carter Center in Atlanta to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering.

  • Central America

    • Financial aid to Colombia's military and right-wing paramilitary groups skyrocketed in the 1980s, even as Colombia compiled one of the worst human rights records in the hemisphere.
    • The School of the Americas has since been criticized concerning the human rights violations performed by a number of its graduates.
    • The majority of the victims were political activists, students, trade unionists, priests, human rights advocates, and poor peasants.
    • Similar to Guatemala, the vast majority of the victims were peasants, trade unionists, teachers, students, human rights advocates, journalist, priests, nuns, and anyone working in the interest of the poor majority.
    • The army murdered, tortured, mutilated, and raped civilians and committed other war crimes, as documented by human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

  • The Women's Rights Movement

    • The National Woman's Party (NWP) was a women's organization founded by Alice Paul in 1913 that fought for women's rights during the early 20th century in the United States, particularly for the right to vote on the same terms as men .
    • They also became the first women to picket for women's rights in front of the White House.
    • The resulting scandal, and its negative impact on the country's international reputation at a time when Wilson was trying to build a reputation for himself and the nation as an international leader in human rights, may have contributed to Wilson's decision to publicly call for the United States Congress to pass the Suffrage Amendment.
    • After the ratification of the nineteenth amendment in 1920, the NWP turned its attention to eliminating other forms of gender discrimination, principally by advocating passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, which Paul drafted in 1923.
    • Alice Paul founded the NWP, the leading women's rights organization throughout the 1920s.

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    • In the 1920s, Eleanor supported a number of women's rights and labor causes.
    • She also supported women's right to vote and became an influential member of the Democratic Party in New York.
    • Unlike her husband, Eleanor was a fervent supporter of civil rights for African Americans.
    • She worked to enhance the status of working women although she criticized and never supported the Equal Rights Amendment. 
    • She was the chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and one of the key officials behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • The Flowering of Black Freedom Struggle

    • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and called for civil and economic rights for African Americans.
    • The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations.
    • Speakers included all six civil-rights leaders of the major activist organizations.
    • The march was not universally supported among civil rights activists.
    • Outline major events in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

  • Women's Rights after Suffrage

    • The Women’s Rights Movement made great strides in the 1920s, both in the areas of gender discrimination and women’s health.
    • The National Woman's Party (NWP), founded by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns in 1913, fought for women's rights in the United States, particularly the right to vote.
    • The resulting scandal, at a time when Wilson was trying to present himself and America as being at the forefront of human rights, may have contributed to his decision to publicly call for passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, the Suffrage Amendment.
    • Prominent civil rights attorney Clarence Darrow offered to defend Sanger free of charge.
    • Describe the fight for women's rights after the passing of the 19th Amendment

  • The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

    • While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement.
    • The March on Washington was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans.
    • By highlighting racial injustice in the South, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the Civil Rights Movement.
    • The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which restored and protected voting rights.
    • Scenes from Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C. in August 1963.

  • The Expansion of the Civil Rights Movement

    • While Congress played a role by passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the actions of civil rights groups such as CORE, the SCLC, and SNCC were instrumental in forging new paths, pioneering new techniques and strategies, and achieving breakthrough successes.
    • The key civil rights events of the 1950s (Brown v.
    • In the letter, King argued that African Americans had waited patiently for more than three hundred years to be given the rights that all human beings deserved; the time for waiting was over.
    • The growing African-American civil rights movement also spawned civil rights movements for other marginalized groups during the 1960s.
    • Outline the course of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s

  • The Gay Rights Movement

    • The Gay Rights movement grew out of the Gay Liberation Movement of the 1970's, pursuing equality through the framework of civil rights.
    • This new movement portrayed gays and lesbians as a minority group and used the language of civil rights.
    • Gay and lesbian rights advocates argued that one's sexual orientation does not reflect on one's gender.
    • This proved to be a major set-back in the Gay Rights movement.
    • The connection between gay men and GRID—later renamed human immunodeficiency virus/autoimmune deficiency syndrome, or HIV/AIDS—led heterosexuals to largely ignore the growing health crisis in the country, wrongly assuming they were safe from its effects.