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History of Human Rights Movements
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History of Human Rights Movements
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1. While spending time in the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, …………. learned all about Mahatma Gandhi's policy against nonviolence, and finally earned a degree in Divinity in 1951.
2. Bhagat movement was centred on the Oran tribes of Chhotangapur in .......
3. In the early 1980s, ............... was elected chairman of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK).
4. Soon after the War, American President ................under his capacity of being the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate States of America.
5. Aung San Suu Kyi’s father was the de facto prime minister of……………., and was murdered when she was two years old.
6. Mandela became the first democratically elected president of ................
7. The International Court of Justice, the judicial branch of the UN, is based in................, the Netherlands, and was established in 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations.
8. On February 11, 1945, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin met at ............and announced their resolution to form a general international organization to maintain peace and security"."
9. .............returned to South Africa in 1975 and was appointed Anglican Dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg -— the first black person to hold that position.
10. American Bill of Rights, ……………….
11. ................was appointed as the UN Lead for an investigation into the Israeli bombings in the Beit Hanoun November 2006 incident.
12. At the International Peace Conference in Hague in ............. over 25 nations met for ten weeks to codify the laws of war, both on land and at sea.
13. The post of High Commissioner for Human Rights was first held by ...................of Ecuador.
14. Muslim states have created the …………….Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (1990).
15. While in confinement Mandela earned a bachelor of law degree from the University of .............. and served as a mentor to his fellow prisoners, encouraging them to seek better treatment through nonviolent resistance.
16. ……………was elected leader of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which boycotted the transit system in Alabama to combat racial segregation.
17. ..................was born on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosaspeaking Thimbu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo.
18. …………….. soon became a pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, after having married Coretta Scott in 1953, a singer he met while in Boston.
19. British Magna Carta was in the year………………
20. As president, ........... established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights and political violations committed by both supporters and opponents of apartheid between 1960 and 1994.
21. On 10 December 1948 in.............., the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
22. The American Civil War started on 12th April, .............., and came to an end on 9th April, 1865, thus lasting for four years and resulting in heavy loss of life and property.
23. It was at Cambridge that .................became friends with William Pitt the younger.
24. Madam Justice ………….was appointed in 1996 by the United Nations Security Council to be the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
25. ............... retired from politics in 1825 and died on 29 July 1833, shortly after the act to free slaves in the British Empire passed through the House of Commons.