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also known as Mum Bett – first former slave to win a freedom suit in Massachusetts Olaudah Equiano: 1745 1797 United Kingdom Nigeria: purchased his freedom, helped found the Sons of Africa, and wrote the influential The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano depicting the horrors of the slave trade Jeremy Bentham: 1748 1832
Peace activists usually work with others in the overall anti-war and peace movements to focus the world's attention on what they perceive to be the irrationality of violent conflicts, decisions, and actions. They thus initiate and facilitate wide public dialogues intended to nonviolently alter long-standing societal agreements directly relating ...
Freedom in the World is a yearly survey and report by the U.S.-based non-governmental organization Freedom House that measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights in every nation and significant related and disputed territories around the world.
Afghan mujahideen were considered freedom fighters by US president Ronald Reagan (1985 photo). A freedom fighter is a person engaged in a struggle to achieve political freedom, particularly against an established government. [1] [2] The term is typically reserved for those who are actively involved in armed or otherwise violent rebellion. [3]
The Menendez brothers have fought a decades-long battle for freedom since being convicted in 1996 in the sensational murders of their parents at the family's Beverly Hills home. For years, they ...
Kenya Land and Freedom Army: Britain: Rebellion suppressed 1954–1962 Algerian War: Algeria: France: Independence of Algeria from France: 1954–ongoing Insurgency in Northeast India: Separatist groups in Northeast India India: Ongoing (low level insurgency) 1955–1959 Cyprus Emergency Cyprus: Britain: Independence of Cyprus from Britain ...
Resistance during World War II was mainly dedicated to fighting the Axis occupiers. Germany itself also had an anti-Nazi Hitler, German resistance movement in this period. Although the United Kingdom did not suffer invasion in World War II, preparations were made for a British resistance movement in the event of a German invasion (see Auxiliary ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. This article is a list of freedom indices produced by several non-governmental organizations that publish and maintain assessments of the state of freedom in the world, according to their own various definitions of the term, and rank countries using various measures of freedom, including ...