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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, states that "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of oneself and one's family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care." [111]
Civil Rights Act of 1866. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. [8] In the wake of the American Civil War, the Act was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent born in or brought to the United States.
Rights. While belief in the sanctity of human life has ancient precedents in many religions of the world, the foundations of modern human rights began during the era of renaissance humanism in the early modern period. The European wars of religion and the civil wars of seventeenth-century Kingdom of England gave rise to the philosophy of ...
1993 – The American Indian Disability Legislation Project was established to collect data on Native American disability rights laws and regulations. [3] 1993 – Robert Williams was appointed Commissioner of the Administration on Developmental Disabilities. He was the first developmentally disabled person to be named the Commissioner. [3]
March 4 – Houston's first sit-in, led by Texas Southern University students, was held at Weingarten supermarket, located at 4110 Almeda in Houston, Texas. March 9 – An Appeal for Human Rights was published. March 15 – The Atlanta sit-ins begin. March 19 – San Antonio becomes the first city to integrate lunch counters.
Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya).. The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
Tennessee: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1839. Mississippi: The Married Women's Property Act 1839 grants married women the right to own (but not control) property in her own name. [10] 1840.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was drafted between early 1947 and late 1948 by a committee formed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Further discussion and amendments were made by the Commission on Human Rights, the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations.