International Year of Human Rights
1968 was declared the International Year of Human Rights by UNESCO, with the principal goal of bringing attention to the state of human rights throughout the world.[1] On its XX session on March 17-18, 1964 United Nations Commission on Human Rights considered United Nations General Assembly Eighteenth session decision to proclaim International Year of Human Rights and recommended the establishment of the committee for preparation of celebration of 20th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and organisation of an international conference on human rights.[2]
See also
- Human rights
- History of human rights
- Timeline of young people's rights in the United Kingdom
- in the United States
- Slavery in international law
- Slave Trade Acts
- Human rights in China (PRC)
- Command responsibility
- Moral universalism
- Declaration on Great Apes, an as-yet unsuccessful effort to extend some human rights to other great apes.
- "Consent of the governed"
- Racial equality proposal (1919)
- The Farewell Sermon (632 CE)
- Youth for Human Rights International
References
- ^ The UNESCO Courier [1] January 1968 (21st year) U. K. : 2/-stg - Canada: 40 cents - France: 1.20 F
- ^ Milutin Tomanović (1965) Hronika međunarodnih događaja 1964, Institute of International Politics and Economics, p270 (in Serbo-Croatian)