Exam 1: The Evolution of Human Rights: From Ancient Codes to International Declarations

African states have created their own Charter of Human and People's Rights in …………………

In ……… countries established the International Labor Organization (ILO) to oversee treaties protecting workers with respect to their rights, including their health and safety.

Trials were held in …………….and Tokyo after World War II, and officials from the defeated countries were punished for committing war crimes, "crimes against peace," and "crimes against humanity."

The Hindu Vedas, the Babylonian Code of……………., the Bible, the Quran (Koran), and the Analects of Confucius are five of the oldest written sources which address questions of people's duties, rights, and responsibilities.

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was held in ……………………..

Concern over the protection of certain minority groups was raised by the …………………

The English Bill of Rights……………

In addition, the Inca and Aztec codes of conduct and justice and an Iroquois Constitution were Native …………..sources that existed well before the 18th century.

Documents asserting individual rights, such the Magna Carta

The French Declaration on the Rights of Man and Citizen

Rights for all members of the human family were first articulated in ………………. in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Muslim states have created the …………….Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (1990).

The League floundered because the United States refused to join and because the League failed to prevent Japan's invasion of China and Manchuria in …………………..

The …………….Constitution and Bill of Rights (1791) are the written precursors to many of today's human rights documents.

The ……………. articles of the Declaration together form a comprehensive statement covering economic, social, cultural, political, and civil rights.

Rights for all members of the human family were first articulated in 1948 in the …………….Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

………….attack on Ethiopia 1935.

On December 10, ……………., the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)was adopted by the 56 members of the United Nations.

The extermination by Nazi ……………of over six million Jews, Sinti and Romani (gypsies), homosexuals, and persons with disabilities horrified the world.

NGO activities surrounding the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, …………., drew unprecedented attention to serious violations of the human rights of women.