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Germany's Reichstag had 32 women deputies in 1926 (6.7% of the Reichstag), giving women representation at the national level that surpassed countries such as Great Britain (2.1% of the House of Commons) and the United States (1.1% of the House of Representatives); this climbed to 35 women deputies in the Reichstag in 1933 on the eve of the Nazi ...
This is similar to the Weimarer Reichsverfassung, the Weimar Republic constitution, whose Article 109 read: "Alle Deutschen sind vor dem Gesetze gleich" [28] ("All Germans are equal under the law") and "Männer und Frauen haben grundsätzlich dieselben staatsbürgerlichen Rechte und Pflichten" [29] ("Men and women have strictly the same rights ...
Czechoslovakia: Females are given the same rights as males in the new constitution and divorce is legalized for both sexes. [2] Iran: Public schools for girls are opened in order to enforce the law of compulsory education for girls in practice. [21] Soviet Russia: The first Soviet Constitution explicitly declares the equal rights of men and women.
The constitution guarantees all rights from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which itself is not legally binding), with the exception of an unlimited right for asylum. The ratification of the European Convention on Human Rights allows citizens to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights .
The crimes of women in early modern Germany (Oxford University Press, 1999). Ruble, Alexandria N. Entangled Emancipation: Women’s Rights in Cold War Germany ((University of Toronto Press, 2023) online scholarly review of this book; Rupp, Leila J. Mobilizing women for war: German and American propaganda, 1939-1945 (Princeton University Press ...
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) -Germany's top court has rejected a change to the electoral system that would have disadvantaged smaller parties in parliamentary elections, although it upheld a ...
On 12 September 1949, the first Bundesversammlung met in Bonn, which served as the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany before reunification with East Germany. From 1954 to 1969 the Bundesversammlung was convened at the Ostpreußenhalle in Berlin , leading to protests from the German Democratic Republic on each occasion it met.
By the time Arthur Terminiello arrived at Chicago's West End Woman's Club on a Thursday evening in February 1946, a hostile crowd that would swell to 1,000 or so protesters had already gathered ...