By Series - Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series

  1. Gorbachev Initiates a Policy of Glasnost
  2. Government Policies Seek to End the Special Status of Native Americans
  3. Government-Supported Death Squads Quash Sri Lanka Insurrection
  4. Great Britain Passes Acts to Provide Unemployment Benefits
  5. Greek and Turkish Inhabitants of Cyprus Clash over Political Rights
  6. Greek Coup Leads to Military Dictatorship
  7. Greensboro Sit-Ins Launch a New Stage in the Civil Rights Movement
  8. Guatemalan Death Squads Target Indigenous Indians
  9. Hague Conference Formulates Legal Norms of Behavior in War
  10. Hague Court Convicts Bosnian Croats of 1993 Muslim Massacre
  11. A Helsinki Watch Report Proposes Reform of Refugee Laws
  12. Hitler Uses Reichstag Fire to Suspend Civil and Political Liberties
  13. Hitler Writes Mein Kampf
  14. Ho Chi Minh Organizes the Viet Minh
  15. Homosexuality Is Removed from the APA List of Psychiatric Disorders
  16. Hong Kong Residents Pressure Great Britain on Passport Issue
  17. HUAC Begins Investigating Suspected Communists
  18. HUAC Investigates Hollywood
  19. Hungary Adopts a Multiparty System
  20. The Immigration Act of 1921 Imposes a National Quota System
  21. Incarcerated Mental Patients are Given a Right to Treatment
  22. India Adopts Compulsory Birth Control
  23. India Gains Independence
  24. India Signs the Dehli Pact
  25. The Indian Government Bans Discrimination Against Untouchables
  26. Indian Parliament Approves Women’s Rights Legislation
  27. The Indian Reorganization Act Offers Autonomy to American Indians
  28. Indira Gandhi Is Assassinated
  29. Indonesia’s Government Retaliates Against a Failed Communist Coup
  30. Intellectuals Form the Society of American Indians
  31. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Is Created
  32. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Is Established
  33. An International Health Conference Adopts the Declaration of Alma-Ata
  34. The International Labour Organisation Is Established
  35. International Labour Organization Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
  36. The International League for Human Rights Is Founded
  37. The International Organization of Consumers Unions Is Founded
  38. Inuit File Claim to a Section of Canadian Territory
  39. Iran Bars Non-Muslims from Cabinet Positions
  40. Iran Calls for Murder of Writer Salman Rushdie
  41. Iran Uses Executions to Establish New Order
  42. Iranian Revolutionaries Hold Americans Hostage
  43. Iraq Invades and Ravages Kuwait
  44. Iraq Promotes Genocide of Kurds
  45. Iraq Uses Poison Gas Against Kurds
  46. Ireland Is Granted Home Rule and Northern Ireland Is Created
  47. Israel Convicts Demjanjuk of Nazi War Crimes
  48. Israel Enacts the Law of Return, Granting Citizenship to Immigrants
  49. Israel Is Created as a Homeland for Jews
  50. Italy Legalizes Abortion