Subcategories - Human Rights

  1. The United Nations Issues a Declaration on South Africa
  2. United Nations Issues Declaration Against Torture
  3. A United Nations Peace Force Is Deployed in Cyprus
  4. United Nations Principles of Medical Ethics Include Prevention of Torture
  5. United Nations Responds to Problems of the Homeless
  6. United Nations Sets Rules for Treatment of Prisoners
  7. United Nations Tribunal Convicts Rwandan Leader of Genocide
  8. United Nations Tribunal Convicts Rwandans of Genocide
  9. United Nations Votes to Protect Freedom of Religion and Belief
  10. United Nations Votes to Punish South Africa for Apartheid
  11. The United States Airlifts Supplies to West Berlin
  12. United States Changes Policy on Cuban Refugees
  13. United States Government Orders Collection of Data on Crimes Against Homosexuals
  14. The United States Grants Amnesty to Vietnam War Draft Evaders
  15. United States Interns Japanese Americans
  16. The United States Peace Corps Is Founded
  17. Upton Sinclair Publishes The Jungle
  18. Vietnam Releases U.S. Prisoners of War
  19. Vietnamese Troops Withdraw from Cambodia
  20. Virginia Slave Codes
  21. W. E. B. Du Bois
  22. The Wagner Act Requires Employers to Accept Collective Bargaining
  23. Walter White
  24. Wat Tyler
  25. White Slave Trade Attacked by International Agreement
  26. White Supremacist Is Convicted in Racially Motivated Murder
  27. Wiesel Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
  28. Wilder Becomes the First Elected Black Governor
  29. The Wolfenden Report Recommends Decriminalizing Homosexual Acts
  30. Women’s Institutes Are Founded in Great Britain
  31. Women’s Rights in India Undergo a Decade of Change, 1925-1935
  32. A World Conference Condemns Racial Discrimination
  33. World Conference on Women Sets an International Agenda
  34. World Delegates Discuss Population Control
  35. The World Health Organization Adopts a Code on Breast-Milk Substitutes
  36. World Health Organization Sets a Goal of Health for All by the Year 2000
  37. World Health Organization (WHO) Proclaims Health as a Basic Right
  38. The Young Turk Movement Stages a Constitutional Coup in Turkey
  39. Yugoslav Army Shells Dubrovnik
  40. The Zero Population Growth Movement Spurs Environmental Consciousness
  41. Zia Establishes Martial Law in Pakistan
  42. Zimbabwe’s Freedom Fighters Topple White Supremacist Government
  43. Zoot-Suit Riots Exemplify Ethnic Tensions in Los Angeles