ON THIS DAY in 1972, US Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution. The amendment was never adopted as it was not ratified by enough states.
Category Archives: Human Rights
1971 | Springbok tour State of Emergency
ON THIS DAY in 1971, the Bjelke-Petersen Government declared a month-long State of Emergency under s22 of the Queensland State Transport Act 1938 to control protests against the South African Springbok rugby union tour.
1954 | Brown v Board of Education
ON THIS DAY in 1954, the US Supreme Court delivered Brown v Board of Education, a ruling which ended racial segregation in US schools by holding that state sanctioned segregation was a violation of the 14th amendment.
The Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951
ON 22 APRIL 1954, the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees commenced.
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European Convention on Human Rights
ON 4 NOVEMBER 1950, the European Convention on Human Rights was signed. It came into effect on 3 September 1953.
www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Convention_ENG.pdf
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
ON 10 DECEMBER 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
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South African apartheid begins
ON 26 MAY 1948, the policy of apartheid was introduced to South Africa.
Apartheid was developed through a series of Acts of parliament including the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act 1949, Population Registration Act 1950, Group Areas Act 1950, Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act 1951, Suppression of Communism Act 1950, Bantu Education Act 1950, Bantu Authorities Act 1951, Reservation of Separate Amenities Act 1953, Natives Urban Areas Act 1952, Native Labour Act 1953 and Black Homeland Citizenship Act 1970.
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Nuremberg Trials
ON 20 NOVEMBER 1945, the Nuremberg Trials began.
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1927 | Buck v Bell
ON THIS DAY in 1927, the US Supreme Court delivered Buck v Bell 274 US 200 (1927).
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality a law of the State of Virginia which allowed the sterilisation of “feeble minded” inmates of institutions with “hereditary insanity or imbecility”.
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Plessy v Ferguson 163 US 537 (1986)
ON THIS DAY in 1896, the US Supreme Court delivered Plessy v Ferguson 163 US 537 (1896).
The US Supreme Court applied the doctrine of “separate but equal” to uphold the constitutionality of state laws providing for racial segregation in the provision of public facilities.
The decision was overruled by the court in Brown v Board of Education on 17 May 1954.
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