Exam 3: Historical Figures and Events in the Development of Individual Rights and Civil Rights Movements

The atrocities of The Holocaust, culminated in the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in ................by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

……………was able to successfully arrest and convict Jean Kambanda, then prime minister of Rwanda, for his role in the genocides in 1994.

British Magna Carta was in the year………………

In his book 'On Liberty', …………strongly disagrees with utilitarianism, and sees it as a type of tyranny by the majority.

In January 1948,………….. was tragically killed by an assassin opposed to his belief in passive resistance, and tolerance of all people.

……………was elected leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which boycotted the transit system in Alabama to combat racial segregation.

American Bill of Rights, ……………….

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president of ………………..

The term human rights probably came into use sometime between Paine's The Rights of Man and ................ 1831 writings in The Liberator, in which he stated that he was trying to enlist his readers in "the great cause of human rights".

Horrified by the brutal atrocities commited by the military leader Ne Win against protesters, ……………..formed the National League for Democracy, advocating non violent protest for human rights.

French Declaration of the Rights of Man was in the year…………..

Martin Luther King Jr organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to publicize the need for civil rights in…………….

One of the first examples of a codification of laws that contain references to individual rights is the tablet of……………...

William Wilberforce in ................worked towards the abolition of slavery.

Martin Luther King Jr.was the leader of the Civil Rights Movement in ……………… during the mid 20th century.

…………….. was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva from 1987 to 1990.

Aung San Suu Kyi's father was the de facto prime minister of……………., and was murdered when she was two years old.

………………. sailed to South Africa as part of his work for a Muslim legal firm, where he experiences discrimination first hand, and worked to improve the rights of immigrant Indians.

Madam Justice ………….was appointed in 1996 by the United Nations Security Council to be the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

……………… was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India to Hindu parents.