Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Frank Clearwater (of Cherokee and Apache nations) was shot and wounded on April 17, dying 8 days later on April 25, 1973, and Lawrence "Buddy" Lamont was shot and killed on April 26, 1973. Ray Robinson, a civil rights activist who joined the protesters, disappeared during the events. It was later determined that he had been buried on the ...
No law shall discriminate against a person because of race or religious ideas, beliefs, or affiliations. No law shall arbitrarily, capriciously, or unreasonably discriminate against a person because of birth, age, sex, culture, physical condition, or political ideas or affiliations." [186] [non-primary source needed] Tennessee: In Dunn v.
It was drafted by the Commission on Human Rights, and then officially implemented in 1973. [6] This convention was the first to name apartheid a crime under international law, while also being the first to name apartheid a crime against humanity.
1973 – The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 became law; Section 504 of the Act states "No otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States, shall, solely by reason of his [sic] handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal ...
Additionally, the Amnesty Law decreed in 1978 by Pinochet guaranteed impunity to those responsible for the "systematic and widespread human rights violations and was a major obstacle to bringing Pinochet to justice in Chile. [50] Even today, "the Amnesty Law is still in force. It was recently applied by the Chilean Supreme Court in December 2007."
February 11 – Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released from Vietnam. February 12 – Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post road distance signs in metric (see Metric system in the United States). February 13 – The United States Dollar is devalued by 10%.
Gayle, the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Alabama laws requiring segregation of buses. This ruling, together with the ICC's 1955 ruling in Keys v. Carolina Coach banning "Jim Crow laws" in bus travel among the states, is a landmark in outlawing "Jim Crow" in bus travel. The Browder case was brought and won by noted civil rights attorney Fred Gray.
Chagossians and human rights advocates have said that the Chagossian right of occupation was violated by the British Foreign Office as a result of the 1966 agreement [5] between the British and American governments to provide an unpopulated island for a U.S. military base, and that additional compensation [6] and a right of return [7] be provided.