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Human and civil rights: essential primary sources
Publisher
Thomson Gale
Publication Date
c2006
Language
English
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ISBN
9781414412627
Table of Contents
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Advisors and contributors
Acknowledgements
About the set
Introduction
About the entry
Using primary sources
Chronology
Development of human rights
Slavery and genocide
Imprisonment
Health and housing
Labor and working conditions
Civil and political rights
Borders, sovereignty and culture
Education and childhood
Sources consulted
Index.
Advisors and Contributors
Acknowledgements
About the Set
Introduction
About the Entry
Using Primary Sources
Chronology
Development of Human Rights
Introduction to Development of Human Rights
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Bill of Rights
On the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of the Deaf and Dumb
Man's Rights, or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams
The Duties of American Citizenship
The Communist Manifesto
The People's Legal Right to Freedom
Niagara's Declaration of Principles
Four Freedoms
Punishment and Prevention of War Crimes
Creation of UN Commission on Human Rights
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights
Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
Equal Rights Amendment
Beauty Will Save the World
The Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Israel's Knesset Debates the Adoption of a Human Rights Charter
Responding to Complex Humanitarian Crises and Massive Abuses of Human Rights
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Menace That Wasn't
Slavery and Genocide
Introduction to Slavery and Genocide
Handbill Offering a Reward for a Runaway Slave
Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
Copper Slave Tags
Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the Schooner Amistad
Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
Country, Conscience, and the Anti-Slavery Cause
A British View on America's Slave Trade
Slaveholding Not Sinful
The Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
League of Nations Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery
Fate Did Not Let Me Go
Cambodia's Killing Fields
Letter to the Former Comfort Women
Pacifique Mukeshimana
U.S. Congress Terms Situation in Darfur "Genocide"
Colombia: Displaced and Discarded
Milosevic Case Information Sheet
Mass Grave Near Samawa in the Muthanna Province in Iraq
PEN Protests Charges Against Turkish Author Orhan Pamuk
Nashi ("Ours")
Imprisonment
Introduction to Imprisonment
Hanging A Woman
Executive Order 9066
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Human Rights Abuses in Shahist Iran
The Visit
Nigeria: On the Anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa's Execution, Human Rights Organizations Call for Reform
U.N. Report on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Conditions in Primam Prison, Jeddah
We, On Death Row
Open Letter to Deng Xiaoping
Expressing the Sense of the House of Representatives Regarding Several Individuals Who Are Being Held as Prisoners of Conscience by the Chinese Government for Their Involvement in Efforts to End the Chinese Occupation of Tibet
Coming Out of Solitary Confinement, Schlusselburg Fortress Prison, Russia, 1886
A Passion for Solitude
By Right of Memory
Chile: Torture Testimonies to Be Concealed for Fifty Years
Last Secrets of Nazi Terror
an Underground Labor Camp
Question of Detainees in the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo
Camp Delta Four in the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba
Health and Housing
Introduction to Health and Housing
The Sanitary and Moral Condition of New York City
Fair Housing Act
Roe v. Wade
China's "One-Child Family" Policy
Woman Cries with Her Dying Child
No Electricity, Running Water, and Almost No Medical Supplies
Indian Government's Comments on Asia Watch-Physicians for Human Rights Report "The Crackdown in Kashmir"
World Medical Association Resolution on the Prohibition of Access of Women to Health Care and the Prohibition of Practice of Female Doctors in Afghanistan
Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee
Aid for Africa Development
Water: Two Billion People Are Dying for It
Act for the Relief of the Parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo
An Act to Provide Compensation to the Persons Sterilized Through the State's Eugenic Sterilization
Labor and Working Conditions
Introduction to Labor and Working Conditions
Labor Strikes and Their Effects on Society:
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
Legal Recognition of Industrial Women
Conscientious Objector
National Labor Relations Act
Equal Pay Act of 1963
American Federation of Labor on President Johnson and Human Rights
Solidarity's First Congress
Americans with Disabilities Act
Indian Child Labor
How Ireland Hid Its Own Dirty Laundry
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
Honduran Sweatshops
Judge Rejects Lawsuit Challenging Army "Stop Loss" Policy
Undocumented Migrant Farm Workers
Civil and Political Rights
Introduction to Civil and Political Rights
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Women's Disabilities Removal Bill
Plessy v. Ferguson
Lynch Law in America
The Birth of a Nation
The Causes of the Chicago Race Riot
The Social Equality of Whites and Blacks
American Women Enfranchised
Man Buying Tickets at Black Entrance to Theater
Executive Order 9981
Rosa Parks Is Fingerprinted by Police
Newton Girl Jailed in Mississippi with Eight Freedom Fighters
"I Have a Dream"
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
City of Memphis v. Martin Luther King, Jr
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid
Mourners Surround the Coffin of Black Leader Steve Biko
Nelson Mandela's Second Court Statement
Tiananmen Square Protest
Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 5 and 6, 1989
Tiananmen Square Declaration of Human Rights
Appeal for Action to Stop Repression and Trials in South Africa
Afghan Women Approach a Voting Station
Borders, Sovereignty and Culture
Introduction to Borders, Sovereignty and Culture
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Dawes Severalty Act 1887
To Every Englishman in India
Dalai Lama, Holy Ruler of the Land of Tibet
UN Resolution 242
Cast Out Caste
Rigoberta Menchú Tum's Nobel Lecture
Human Rights Abuses of Jews in Arab Countries After the Six-Day War
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
Millicent
A Pictorial Guide to Hell
Honor Killings
Refugees and Asylum: Global Figures for 2002
Global Internet Freedom Act
Chirac Calls for Ban on Headscarves
How Has 9/11 Changed America's Approach to Human Rights?
National Identity Card
International Religious Freedom Report for 2005
Googling the Great Firewall
Education and Childhood
Introduction to Education and Childhood
No Church Need Apply
Girl in a Bean Field
Brown v. Board of Education
Title IX, Educational Amendments of 1972
Education for all Handicapped Children Act
Plyler v. Doe
Young Children Weave Carpets at a Kathmandu Factory
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
Attacks Beset Afghan Girls' Schools
Sources Consulted
Index.
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