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