Part I. Development of Human Rights --
Introduction to Development of Human Rights --
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen / National Assembly of France, 1789 --
Bill of Rights / U.S. Congress, 1791 --
On the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of the Deaf and Dumb / Harvey P. Peet, 1857 --
Man's Rights, or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams / Annie Denton Cridge, 1870 --
The Duties of American Citizenship / Theodore Roosevelt, 1883 --
The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848 --
The People's Legal Right to Freedom / Zhinazi, 1903 --
Niagara's Declaration of Principles / Anonymous, 1905 --
Four Freedoms / Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1941 --
Punishment and Prevention of War Crimes / League of Nations, 1943 --
Creation of UN Commission on Human Rights / United Nations, 1946 --
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights / United Nations General Assembly, 1948 --
Adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights / Eleanor Roosevelt, 1948 --
Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War / United Nations, 1950 --
Equal Rights Amendment / Martha Griffiths, Birch Bayh and Marlow Cook, 1972 --
Beauty Will Save the World / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1974 --
The Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe / Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, 1975 --
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment / United Nations, 1984 --
Israel's Knesset Debates the Adoption of a Human Rights Charter / Netanel Lorch, 1964 --
Responding to Complex Humanitarian Crises and Massive Abuses of Human Rights / Joelle Tanguy, 1998 --
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / David Manasian, 1998 --
The Menace That Wasn't / Anonymous, 2004 --
Part II. Slavery and Genocide --
Introduction to Slavery and Genocide --
Handbill offering a reward for a runaway slave / Louie Psihoyos, 1835 --
Proceedings of the Anti-slavery Convention of American Women / Anonymous, 1838 --
Copper Slave Tags / Louie Psihoyos, 1840 --
Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the Schooner Amistad / John Quincy Adams, 1841 --
Am I not a man and a brother? / Anonymous, 1844 --
Country, Conscience, and the Anti-Slavery Cause / Frederick Douglass, 1847 --
A British View on America's Slave Trade / The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1853 --
Slaveholding Not Sinful / Samuel Blanchard How, 1856 --
The Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln, 1863 --
Thirteenth Amendment / U.S. Congress, 1865 --
League of Nations Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery / League of Nations, 1926 --
Fate Did Not Let Me Go / Valli Ollendorff, 1942 --
Cambodia's Killing Fields / Denis D. Gray, 1981 --
Letter to the Former Comfort Women / Junichiro Koizumi, 2001 --
Pacifique Mukeshimana / Public Broadcasting Service, 2003 --
U.S. Congress Terms Situation in Darfur & "Genocide" / Charles W. Corey, 2004 --
Colombia : Displaced and Discarded / Anonymous, 2005 --
Milosevic Case Information Sheet / United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 2005 --
Mass Grave Near Samawa in the Muthanna Province in Iraq / Anonymous, 2005 --
PEN Protests Charges Against Turkish Author Orhan Pamuk / PEN American Center, 2005 --
Nashi "Ours" / Denis Sinyakov, 2006 --
Part III. Imprisonment --
Introduction to Imprisonment --
Hanging A Woman / Karl Heinzen, 1855 --
Coming Out of Solitary Confinement, Schlusselburg Fortress Prison, Russia, 1886 / Vera Figner, c. 1921 --
Executive Order 9066 / Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1942 --
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1963 (English translation) --
Human Rights Abuses in Shahist Iran / Amnesty International, 1976 --
The Visit / Timothy Garton Ash, 1993 --
Nigeria : On the Anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa's Execution / Amnesty International, 1996 --
U.N. Report on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment / Nigel S. Rodley, 1996 --
Conditions in Primam Prison, Jeddah / United Nations Economic and Social Council, 1996 --
We, On Death Row / Paul D'Amato, 2000 --
Open letter to Deng Xiaoping / Fang Lizhi, 1989 --
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 / Tom Udall, 2002 --
A Passion for Solitude / Nawal El Saadawi, Nawal, 2002 --
By Right of Memory / Alexander Tvardovsky, c. 1968-1991 --
Chile : Torture Testimonies To Be Concealed for Fifty Years / Anonymous, 2004 --
Last Secrets of Nazi Terror : Underground Labor Camp / Luke Harding, 2005 --
Question of Detainees in the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo / Government of Cuba, 2005 --
Camp Delta Four in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba / Andres Leighton, 2005 --
Part IV. Health and Housing --
Introduction to Health and Housing --
The Sanitary and Moral Condition of New York City / Anonymous, 1869 --
Fair Housing Act / United States Congress, 1968 --
Roe v. Wade / U.S. Supreme Court, 1973 --
Chinese Poster Encourages One Child Families / Owen Franken, 1985 --
300,000 people died of starvation / Andrew Holbrooke, 1992 --
No electricity, running water, and almost no medical supplies / David Turnley, c. 1992 --
The Crackdown in Kashmir / Embassy of India, Washington, D.C., 1993 --
World Medical Association Resolution on the Prohibition of Access of Women to Health Care and the Prohibition of Practice of Female Doctors in Afghanistan / World Medical Association, 1997 --
Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee / William Jefferson Clinton, 1997 --
Aid for Africa Development / Antony Njuguna, 2002 --
Water : Two Billion People Are Dying for It / Amit Dave, 2003 --
Act for the Relief of the Parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo / United States Congress, 2005 --
An Act to Provide Compensation to the Persons Sterilized Through the State's Eugenic Sterilization / Larry Womble and Earl Jones, 2005.
Part V. Labor and Working Conditions --
Introduction to Labor and Working Conditions --
Labor Strikes and Their Effects on Society / Charles Henry Bliss, 1902 --
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 / Edward Keating and Robert Owen, 1915 --
Legal Recognition of Industrial Women / Eleanor L. Lattimore, 1919 --
Conscientious Objector / Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1934 --
National Labor Relations Act / Robert R. Wagner, 1935 --
Equal Pay Act of 1963 / Edith Green and Edith Rogers, 1963 --
American Federation of Labor on President Johnson and Human Rights / AFL-CIO, 1968 --
Solidarity's First Congress / J.B. Weydenthal, 1981 --
Americans With Disabilities Act / George H.W. Bush, 1990 --
India's Bonded Child Laborers / Sophie Elbaz, 1990 --
How Ireland Hid its Own Dirty Laundry / Mary Gordon, 2003 --
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families / United Nations General Assembly, 2003 --
Honduran sweatshops / Ginnette Riquelme, 2003 --
Judge Rejects Lawsuit Challenging Army "Stop Loss" Policy / The Associated Press, 2005 --
Undocumented Migrant Farm Workers / Andrew Lichtenstein, 2005 --
Part VI. Civil and Political Rights --
Introduction to Civil and Political Rights --
Dred Scott v. Sanford / Roger B. Taney, 1856 --
Women's Disabilities Removal Bill / John Bright, 1889 --
Plessy v. Ferguson / U.S. Supreme Court, 1896 --
Lynch Law in America / Ida B. Wells-Barnett, 1900 --
Birth of a Nation (Advertisement) / D.W. Griffith, 1915 --
The Causes of the Chicago Race Riot / Walter F. White, 1919 --
The Social Equality of Whites and Blacks / W.E.B. Du Bois, 1920 --
American Women Enfranchised / International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1920 --
Man Buying Tickets at Black Entrance to Theater / Eudora Welty, 1935 --
Executive Order 9981 / President Harry S Truman, 1948 --
Rosa Parks is Fingerprinted by Police / Gene Herrick, 1956 --
Newton Girl Jailed in Mississippi with Eight Freedom Fighters / Anonymous, 1961 --
"I Have a Dream" / Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963 --
Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Everett Dirksen, 1964 --
Voting Rights Act of 1965 / Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965 --
City of Memphis v. Martin Luther King, Jr. / City of Memphis, 1968 --
Appeal for Action to Stop Repression and Trials in South Africa / Oliver Reginald Tambo, 1963 --
Nelson Mandela's Second Court Statement / Nelson Mandela, 1964 --
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid / United Nations General Assembly, 1973 --
Mourners Surround the Coffin of Black Leader Steve Biko / The Associated Press, 1977 --
Tiananmen Square protest / Jeff Widener, 1989 --
Secretary of State's Morning Summary for June 5 and 6, 1989 / James A. Baker III, 1989 --
Tiananmen Square Declaration of Human Rights / Anonymous, 1989 --
Afghan Women Approach a Voting Station / Teru Kuwayama, 2004 --
Part VII. Borders, Sovereignty and Culture --
Introduction to Borders, Sovereignty and Culture --
Chinese Exclusion Act / United States Congress, 1882 --
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887 / Henry Dawes, 1887 --
To Every Englishman in India / Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1920 --
Dalai Lama, Holy Ruler of the land of Tibet / Anonymous, 1939 --
UN Resolution 242 / United Nations Security Council, 1967 --
Human Rights Abuses of Jews in Arab Countries After the Six-Day War / Netanel Lorch, 1967 --
Rigoberta Menchú Tum's Nobel Lecture / Rigoberta Menchú Tum, 1992 --
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities / Council of Europe, 1995 --
Millicent Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 1997 --
A Pictorial Guide to Hell / John Kifner, 2001 --
Honor Killings / Lynsey Addario, 2001 --
Refugees and Asylum : Global Figures for 2002 / Anonymous, 2002 --
Global Internet Freedom Act / Christopher Cox and Thomas Lantos, 2002 --
Chirac Calls for Ban on Headscarves / News Service, 2003 --
How Has 9/11 Changed America's Approach To Human Rights? / Harold Hongju Koh, 2003 --
National Identity Card / Dave Caulkin, 2004 --
An Indian female Dalit / Indranil Mukherjee, 2004 --
International Religious Freedom Report for 2005 / U.S. Department of State, 2005 --
Googling the Great Firewall / Erping Zhang, 2006 --
Part VIII. Education and Childhood --
Introduction to Education and Childhood --
No Church Need Apply / Thomas Nast, 1875 --
Girl in Bean Field / Anonymous, 1949 --
Brown v. Board of Education / U.S. Supreme Court, 1954 --
Title IX, Educational Amendments of 1972 / United States Code, 1972 --
Education for all Handicapped Children Act / Gerald R. Ford, 1975 --
Plyler v. Doe / U.S. Supreme Court, 1982 --
Young Children Weave Carpets at a Kathmandu Factory / Alison Wright, 1989 --
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child / United Nations General Assembly, 1989 --
United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty / United Nations General Assembly, 1990 --
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children / United Nations, 2000 --
Attacks Beset Afghan Girls' Schools / Pamela Constable, 2003.
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