https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok en-us 2023-05-22 12:54:13 UTC 2023-05-24 06:32:07 UTC hello@padlet.com 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600044205 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights establishes the equality and dignity of every human and specifies that every Government has a core duty to enable all people to enjoy all their rights and freedoms that they deserve to all have. Everyone has the right to speak freely and participate in decisions that affect our lives]]> 2023-05-22 13:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600044205 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600053854 The civil rights movement was a non-violent social movement and campaign which lasted from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalised racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the United States.]]> 2023-05-22 13:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600053854 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600058093 Apartheid, the Afrikaans name given by the white-ruled South Africa's Nationalist Party in 1948. Was given to the country's harsh, institutionalised system of racial segregation, which finally came to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government in 1994.]]> 2023-05-22 13:12:35 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600058093 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600091238 Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. In the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential constituencies. On 18 December 1894 the South Australian Parliament passed the Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act. The legislation was the result of a decade-long struggle to include women in the electoral process. It not only granted women in the colony the right to vote but allowed them to stand for parliament.]]> 2023-05-22 13:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600091238 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600095179 Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it explicitly references slavery, stating in Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.]]> 2023-05-22 13:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600095179 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600103252 The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II.]]> 2023-05-22 13:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600103252 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600119154 The International Criminal Court (ICC) investigates and, where warranted, tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. Its creation marked a significant step toward ensuring accountability for grave human rights violations.]]> 2023-05-22 13:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600119154 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600128784 Equality within marriage means that: spouses have equal rights broadly; or they have equal rights specifically surrounding children and/or property; and/or women do not have to give up their civil and political rights upon marriage.

]]> 2023-05-22 14:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2600128784 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2602833491 The Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international human rights agreement (also known as a human rights treaty) which outlines the specific rights that children and young people can claim. By signing up to the Convention, national governments commit to protecting these rights in their countries.]]> 2023-05-24 06:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2602833491 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2602836372 The Arab Spring (الربيع العربي) was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across Arab from the 17th of December 2010 to December 2012. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and economic stagnation.]]> 2023-05-24 06:26:29 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2602836372 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2602838647 The disability rights movement is a civil rights movement that works to advocate for and secure equal rights for people with disabilities by breaking down institutional, physical, and social barriers. The disability rights movement came to fruition in the 1960s after the significant groundwork was laid by numerous individuals from around the country.]]> 2023-05-24 06:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2602838647 0249477 https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2602844289 The Stolen Generations refers to a period in Australia's history where Aboriginal children were removed from their families through government policies without the consent of the birth parents. This happened from the mid-1800s to the 1970s. They were then brought into various locations, being adopted by other families.

]]> 2023-05-24 06:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/0249477/841q64715vasphok/wish/2602844289