Friday, 12 June 2015

Human Rights


HUMAN RIGHTS 
By Ethan Scott
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Human rights is the most influential idea in regards to shaping the events and nature of the western world.
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Women's Rights

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1848 - First women's convention in Seneca Falls, New York. There were under 100 people at the conv.
- Signed Declaration of Sentiments

1850 - First women's right convention is held, 1000+ participants.

1869 - Wyoming passes first women suffrage law, other states follow.

1893 - Colorado allows women to vote, other states follow.

1903 - National Women's Trade Union League is established. Pro-wage and working conditions

1916 - Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. based birth control clinic. (Brooklyn NY)

1919 - Federal Women Suffrage Amendment is passed by the House of Representatives and Senate.

1920 - Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor is formed.

1935 - Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women

1955 - The "DOB" is formed - the first lesbian organization in the United States

1960 - FDA approves birth control pills.

1969 - California becomes the first state to adopt a "no fault" divorce law, which allows couples to divorce by mutual consent. By 1985, every state has adopted a similar law. 

1973 - Supreme Court establishes right for women to a safe and legal abortion.

1986 - Supreme Court finds that sexual harassment is a form of job discrimination.

1994 - Violence Against Women Act tightens federal penalties for certain actions. 

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Black Rights

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1787 - Slavery is made illegal in the Northwest Territory

1800 - Gabriel Prosser (Slave & Blacksmith) organized a slave revolt in Richmond VA

1808 - Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa

1820 - Missouri bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri

1831 - Nat Turner (Slave & Preacher) organized the most important slave revolt in history

1849 - Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery and becomes one of the most effective leaders of the Underground Railroad

1857 - Dred Scott case- Congress does not hold the right to ban slavery in states, and also, that slaves are not citizens

1861 - The Confederacy is founded when the Deep South secedes, and the Civil War begins.

1863 - President Lincoln creates the "Emancipation Proclamation" - freeing all slaves

1865 was arguably the most important and notable years in Black History.

Congress establishes the Freedmen's Bureau to protect the rights of newly emancipated blacks (March).
The Civil War ends (April 9).
Lincoln is assassinated (April 14).
The Ku Klux Klan is formed in Tennessee by ex-Confederates (May).
Slavery in the United States is effectively ended when 250,000 slaves in Texas finally receive the news that the Civil War had ended two months earlier (June 19).
Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting slavery (Dec. 6).

1865 - Black codes are passed by Southern states drastically limiting black rights

1868 - Fourteenth Amendment is passed, freeing all slaves, nullifying Dred Scott case

1870 - Fifteenth Amendment is passed, allowing blacks to vote

1965 - Malcom X is assassinated

1966 - Black Panther Party is established (Huey Newton, Bobby Seale)

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LGBTQ Rights

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1924 - Society of Human Rights in Chicago becomes the country's earliest known gay rights organization

1951 - Mattachine Society is created, first national gay rights organization

1962 - Illinois becomes the first state to decriminalize gay homosexual acts between adults in private

1979 - 79,000 people marched for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington DC

2004 - Same sex marriages become legal in Massachusetts 

2008 - 2015: More states recognize gay rights and have made most states since 2004 allow full gay rights and marriage

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As shown via these timelines, these events have a large part in history in the development in human rights. These have definitely shaped the culture of the western world, from being a segregated community to being one large community without segregation, apartheid, and unfairness towards gays and lesbians. These events and ideas have definitely been the most important part of the western world to this date. 


What is a human right?


Why are human rights important?

"Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible." (OHCHR, 2015)


Human rights will affect the future of people positively, empowering more minorities and races that currently do not have many rights. This will improve the culture of the western world dramatically and will ensure that generations to come will be content with their lifestyles regardless of appearance or personality. 
Brunner, Borgna. "African-American History Timeline." Infoplease. Borgna Brunner. Web. 13 
June 2015. <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmtimeline.html>.

 "The American Gay Right Timeline." Infoplease. Infoplease. Web. 13 June 2015. <http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0761909.html>.

  Imbomoni, Ann-Marie. "Women's Rights Movement in the U.S." Infoplease. Infoplease. Web. 13 June 2015. <http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womenstimeline1.html>.

What are Human Rights. (2015). Retrieved June 15, 2015, from <http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Pages/WhatareHumanRights.aspx>.  

3 comments:

  1. Martin Luther King always spoke out of wisdom and has a famous quote/saying or statement. The "I have a dream" statement speaks on behalf of all of these human rights and he said he had a dream of one day everyone, all types of people of race gender, sex can come together as 1 and work around our differences to care for each other. With all the women's rights, black rights, and gay rights we can all see that the change has begun and started to impact in a good way because now things are changing for the better and were getting better at accepting others although we still have a way to go. I think every country or village should be in accepting the way things have changed today because it has changed for the better. I can understand it being hard to adapt to change but the first group of people that go through change or stand up for rights normally have a hard time. Certain countries find these rights acceptable and others are against them. I wonder why things haven't changed in some places like how others have. Is it because of the government overpowering what to accept on deny or is it just the way of the people and what they grew up to?

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  2. I disagree with the idea that "human rights were the most influential idea in regards to shaping the events and nature of the western world". Personally, I think that science and technology was the most important for several reasons. Firstly, during the 1600's, the view of Heliocentrism came about. Heliocentrism was the belief that the earth was not the centre of the universe, and the sun was. This was the start of people believing more in science instead of the church. After this, the idea of Deism came along. Deism was the belief that the universe was a machine put into place by God. For some, this was a perfect alternative because it better explained the universe but still incorporated God. Secondly, during the Industrial Revolution, the creation of machines to make work easier changed the way that humans lived. This is true because some jobs in factories that initially needed to be done by a person, could now be completed with a machine. Lastly, the invention of the personal computer and the internet was one of the most important if not the most important invention of the last 400 years. I believe this because both the internet and the computer allow us to do much more complex tasks much easier.The internet has allowed us to have almost instant access to huge amounts of knowledge that before would have had to be learned through another person. Also, the internet allows us to communicate with anyone on the planet almost instantly. Additionally, other key invention have also played a key role in our lives such as the light bulb and the telephone. Another highly influential discovery was made by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953. This was the discovery of the double helix. The double helix is the commonly known shape that demonstrates how human DNA functions. This discovery lead to the Human Genome Project which was key in learning how to sequence human DNA. With this, we can locate and predict genetic disease before they occur. Overall, I believe that Science and technology were the most influential thing throughout history because they have highly influenced events in history and they will continue to shape key events in the future.

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  3. So i can agree with ur thesis that human rights has the most influential idea to affect the western world from then now and will affect the western world in the future as well.

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