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Defining Documents in World History: Human Rights

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Full Table of Contents


Race, Ethnicity, and Colonialism


Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention


Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin: Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women


The Black Man’s Burden


Mahatma Gandhi’s “Quit India” Speech


Freedom Charter of South Africa


International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination


The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action


United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples


UN Experts Urge More Action to Ensure Dignity, Equity and Justice for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers of African Descent


Political and Civil Rights


The Edicts of King Ashoka


Excerpt from the Cyrus Cylinder


Magna Carta


Article V of the Warsaw Convention of 1573


English Bill of Rights


Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom


Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen


The Bill of Rights


National Petition from the People’s Charter


International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights


International Efforts and the Work of the United Nations


Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide


Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War


European Convention on Human Rights


International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights


African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights


Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment


Convention on the Rights of the Child


Volume 2



Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action


Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union


Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity


Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Human Rights Concerns Related to Forced Displacement in Ukraine


Gender, Sexuality, and the Family


A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill


Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857 (excerpts)


Emmeline Pankhurst: “Freedom or Death”


Maternity Protection Convention (Revised), 1952


Griswold v. Connecticut


Eisenstadt v. Baird


Roe v. Wade


Indira Gandhi: “What Educated Women Can Do”


National Women’s Conference Plan of Action


Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women


Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women


Lawrence v. Texas


European Union: Summary of Directive on Gender Equality


Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Act


Obergefell v. Hodges


Economic and Labor Rights


Evidence Provided to the Sadler Committee


Jane Addams: “Child Labor and Other Dangers of Childhood”


Equal Pay Act


International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families


Seoul Declaration on Safety and Health at Work


Convention on Domestic Workers


Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography