Human and Civil Rights - Essential Primary Sources

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
ISBN 1414403267......Page 4
1 DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS......Page 5
2 SLAVERY AND GENOCIDE......Page 6
3 IMPRISONMENT......Page 7
4 HEALTH AND HOUSING......Page 8
5 LABOR AND WORKING CONDITIONS......Page 9
6 CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS......Page 10
7 BORDERS, SOVEREIGNTY AND CULTURE......Page 11
8 EDUCATION AND CHILDHOOD......Page 12
Advisors and Contributors......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 15
About the Set......Page 23
Introduction......Page 24
Secretary of State’s Morning Summary for June 5 and 6, 1989......Page 25
Using Primary Sources......Page 30
Chronology......Page 32
1 Development of Human Rights......Page 39
Development of Human Rights......Page 41
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen......Page 42
Bill of Rights......Page 44
On the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of the Deaf and Dumb......Page 47
Man’s Rights, or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams......Page 52
The Duties of American Citizenship......Page 55
The Communist Manifesto......Page 60
The People’s Legal Right to Freedom......Page 63
Niagara’s Declaration of Principles......Page 66
Four Freedoms......Page 69
Punishment and Prevention of War Crimes......Page 73
Creation of UN Commission on Human Rights......Page 76
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights......Page 79
Adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights......Page 83
Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War......Page 85
Equal Rights Amendment......Page 88
Beauty Will Save the World......Page 90
The Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe......Page 92
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment......Page 95
Israel’s Knesset Debates the Adoption of a Human Rights Charter......Page 99
Responding to Complex Humanitarian Crises and Massive Abuses of Human Rights......Page 105
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights......Page 110
The Menace That Wasn’t......Page 113
2 Slavery and Genocide......Page 117
Slavery and Genocide......Page 119
Handbill Offering a Reward for a Runaway Slave......Page 120
Proceedings of the Anti-slavery Convention of American Women......Page 122
Copper Slave Tags......Page 126
Appellants, vs. Cinque, and Others, Africans, Captured in the Schooner Amistad......Page 129
Am I Not a Man and a Brother?......Page 131
Country, Conscience, and the Anti-Slavery Cause......Page 134
A British View on America’s Slave Trade......Page 138
Slaveholding Not Sinful......Page 142
The Emancipation Proclamation......Page 145
Thirteenth Amendment......Page 148
League of Nations Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery......Page 151
Fate Did Not Let Me Go......Page 154
Cambodia’s Killing Fields......Page 157
Letter to the Former Comfort Women......Page 159
Pacifique Mukeshimana......Page 162
U.S. Congress Terms Situation in Darfur ‘‘Genocide’’......Page 165
Colombia: Displaced and Discarded......Page 168
Milosevic Case Information Sheet......Page 173
Mass Grave Near Samawa in the Muthanna Province in Iraq......Page 177
PEN Protests Charges Against Turkish Author Orhan Pamuk......Page 179
Nashi (‘‘Ours’’)......Page 182
3 Imprisonment......Page 185
Imprisonment......Page 187
Hanging A Woman......Page 188
Executive Order 9066......Page 191
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich......Page 194
Human Rights Abuses in Shahist Iran......Page 198
The Visit......Page 202
Nigeria: On the Anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Execution, Human Rights Organizations Call for Reform......Page 206
U.N. Report on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment......Page 208
Conditions in Primam Prison, Jeddah......Page 211
We, On Death Row......Page 214
Open Letter to Deng Xiaoping......Page 217
Expressing the Sense of the House of Representatives Regarding Several Individuals Who are Being Held as Prisoners of Conscience by the Chinese Government for Their Involvement in Efforts to End the Chinese Occupation of Tibet......Page 219
Coming Out of Solitary Confinement, Schlusselburg Fortress Prison, Russia, 1886......Page 222
A Passion for Solitude......Page 225
By Right of Memory......Page 227
Chile: Torture Testimonies To Be Concealed for Fifty Years......Page 229
Last Secrets of Nazi Terror— an Underground Labor Camp......Page 232
Question of Detainees in the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo......Page 235
Camp Delta Four in the Guanta´namo Bay Naval Station, Cuba......Page 238
4 Health and Housing......Page 241
Health and Housing......Page 243
The Sanitary and Moral Condition of New York City......Page 244
Fair Housing Act......Page 247
Roe v. Wade......Page 250
China’s ‘‘One-Child Family’’ Policy......Page 254
Woman Cries With Her Dying Child......Page 257
No Electricity, Running Water, and Almost No Medical Supplies......Page 259
Indian Government’s Comments on Asia Watch- Physicians for Human Rights Report ‘‘The Crackdown in Kashmir’’......Page 262
World Medical Association Resolution on the Prohibition of Access of Women to Health Care and the Prohibition of Practice of Female Doctors in Afghanistan......Page 265
Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee......Page 267
Aid for Africa Development......Page 271
Water: Two Billion People Are Dying for It......Page 273
Act for the Relief of the Parents of Theresa Marie Schiavo......Page 275
An Act to Provide Compensation to the Persons Sterilized Through the State’s Eugenic Sterilization......Page 278
5 Labor and Working Conditions......Page 283
Labor and Working Conditions......Page 285
Labor Strikes and Their Effects on Society:......Page 286
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916......Page 289
Legal Recognition of Industrial Women......Page 292
Conscientious Objector......Page 296
National Labor Relations Act......Page 298
Equal Pay Act of 1963......Page 301
American Federation of Labor on President Johnson and Human Rights......Page 303
Solidarity’s First Congress......Page 305
Americans With Disabilities Act......Page 310
Indian Child Labor......Page 313
How Ireland Hid its Own Dirty Laundry......Page 317
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families......Page 320
Honduran Sweatshops......Page 324
Judge Rejects Lawsuit Challenging Army ‘‘Stop Loss’’ Policy......Page 326
Undocumented Migrant Farm Workers......Page 328
6 Civil and Political Rights......Page 331
Civil and Political Rights......Page 333
Dred Scott v. Sanford......Page 334
Women’s Disabilities Removal Bill......Page 338
Plessy v. Ferguson......Page 342
Lynch Law in America......Page 346
The Birth of a Nation......Page 349
The Causes of the Chicago Race Riot......Page 352
The Social Equality of Whites and Blacks......Page 357
American Women Enfranchised......Page 360
Man Buying Tickets at Black Entrance to Theater......Page 363
Executive Order 9981......Page 366
Rosa Parks is Fingerprinted by Police......Page 368
Newton Girl Jailed in Mississippi with Eight Freedom Fighters......Page 371
‘‘I Have a Dream’’......Page 374
Civil Rights Act of 1964......Page 377
Voting Rights Act of 1965......Page 381
City of Memphis v. Martin Luther King, Jr......Page 383
International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid......Page 386
Mourners Surround the Coffin of Black Leader Steve Biko......Page 391
Nelson Mandela’s Second Court Statement......Page 393
Tiananmen Square Protest......Page 398
Secretary of State’s Morning Summary for June 5 and 6, 1989......Page 400
Tiananmen Square Declaration of Human Rights......Page 403
Appeal for Action to Stop Repression and Trials in South Africa......Page 405
Afghan Women Approach a Voting Station......Page 409
7 Borders, Sovereignty and Culture......Page 413
Borders, Sovereignty and Culture......Page 415
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)......Page 416
Dawes Severalty Act 1887......Page 420
To Every Englishman in India......Page 425
Dalai Lama, Holy Ruler of the Land of Tibet......Page 428
UN Resolution 242......Page 431
Cast Out Caste......Page 433
Rigoberta Menchu´ Tum’s Nobel Lecture......Page 437
Human Rights Abuses of Jews in Arab Countries After the Six-Day War......Page 440
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities......Page 443
Millicent......Page 447
A Pictorial Guide to Hell......Page 450
Honor Killings......Page 453
Refugees and Asylum: Global Figures for 2002......Page 456
Global Internet Freedom Act......Page 458
Chirac Calls for Ban on Headscarves......Page 462
How Has 9/11 Changed America’s Approach To Human Rights?......Page 464
National Identity Card......Page 469
International Religious Freedom Report for 2005......Page 471
Googling the Great Firewall......Page 475
8 Education and Childhood......Page 481
Education and Childhood......Page 483
No Church Need Apply......Page 484
Young Children Weave Carpets at a Kathmandu Factory......Page 0
Girl in a Bean Field......Page 487
Brown v. Board of Education......Page 489
Title IX, Educational Amendments of 1972......Page 493
Education for all Handicapped Children Act......Page 497
Plyler v. Doe......Page 500
Young Children Weave Carpets at a Kathmandu Factory......Page 504
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child......Page 507
United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty......Page 512
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children......Page 515
Attacks Beset Afghan Girls’ Schools......Page 518
Sources Consulted......Page 523
Index......Page 533