Questions tagged [human-rights]
The various ethical and legal frameworks of inalienable human rights to life, dignity, and so forth, and the way that those frameworks have evolved throughout history.
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Did Western governments object to repression of western communists during Stalinism? [closed]
I am interested in the repression of western communists (traveling to or residing in the USSR) during the Stalin era. How extensive was it? What were the justifications from the Soviet point of view? ...
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Was it possible to organize a women's uprising or feminist movement in the Middle Ages? [closed]
Women in Europe endured thousands of years of gender inequality, culminating in the Middle Ages. Women in the Middle Ages had few rights and were treated like minors and properties, yet they did very ...
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What's the origin of differentiating between civilians' and soldiers' "rights" in war? [closed]
In ancient Western times civilians were considered legitimate spoils of war for the victor. Sometime in Western Europe that seems to have changed. While Otto von Bismarck waged symbolic wars in Europe ...
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Has banning controversial ideas ever not lead to much violence in enforcement or resistance?
In the past year or two I've noticed the public discourse to increasingly contain arguments about "hate speech" and that this shouldn't be covered by free speech laws. I won't be interested in any ...
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Did Kuwait use to ban women from driving?
News that Saudi Arabia will allow women to drive has been in the news recently. It's been described as the only country that currently forbids women from driving, which makes me wonder about whether ...
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Why wasn't the 1953 Iranian coup d’état considered to be a violation of United Nations Charter?
The United Nations Charter explicitly states within Article 2 that the organization is based on the "sovereign equality" of all its members. Among its foundational principles, it further states in ...
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Why wasn't there any international outrage on the Hindu genocide carried out by Pakistan during 1971? [closed]
It was an ethnic cleansing deliberately carried out by the Pakistani troops to get rid of the Hindu minority communities especially Bengali population that mostly settled in eastern Pakistan post ...
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When did the modern discourse of equality develop?
I know that racial segregation was gone by the end of 1968, and that New Zealand allowed Women to vote in 1893, from which most of the world followed. But, the thought of a world where everyone, ...
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To what extent is a coincidence that the Dec. of the Rights of Man and the Citizen and the USA Dec. of Independence were approved so close in time? [closed]
France helped North Americans revolutionaries during the Independence War. The USA Declaration of Independence (USA, 1776) and the US Constitution (USA, 1787) influenced the content of the Declaration ...
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Why did human and civil rights gain a foothold at the time they did? [closed]
Even though the idea of human equal rights has a rather long history, it wasn't a reality up until the late 18th century. Nobles still had more or less absolute power over the lower classes. The lower ...
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Framers and Criminal Voting Rights
At the time of the drafting of the Constitution, who can and cannot vote was left up to the states. Despite leaving it up to the states to decide, did any of the Framers view that criminals, either in ...
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When has a military force used their own people as human shields?
I am looking for instances/examples (and sources) throughout history of times an army used it's own people as a buffer between itself and an opposing force.
While it is fairly common for an army to ...
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What was the origin of religious tolerance in Europe? [closed]
Can, anyone, please, give an overview of how the humanism came about in Europe, precisely, the main prerequisites and reasons for its origin.
Given the ambiguity of the very term "humanism", I will ...
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Does Amnesty International maintain a list of prisoners of conscience?
Has Amnesty International ever maintained a list of people they officially designate as "prisoners of conscience" ?
If yes, where can this list be found?
Context: I have recently found this Wikipedia ...
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Where can I find a PDF of the Commission on Industrial Relations?
Where can I find good primary source website?
I need to find a PDF of the Commission on Industrial Relations.
But, the only place that I can find it is within the University of Miami website, which ...
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Who first in human history has promoted equality rights of all people? [closed]
I have found this wiki page about Twelve Articles but as it says in this article:
The Twelve Articles (1525) are considered to be the first record of human rights in Europe
it considers only ...
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What did the Catholic Church do to promote human rights of non-christians from 1500s to mid 1900s?
Clarifications: When I say Church, I mean anybody who recognises the authority of the Pope over him. Also, I am referring to efforts on a mass scale, that is papal bulls, formal policies etc. I am not ...
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