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in 1848, over 200 women met at Seneca Falls, USA, to write a "bill of rights"
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in 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation, which declared slaves to be "forever free"
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after the end of the first world war, Britain, France and the USA organized an internantional peace conference in Paris.
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the leage of nations is an internantional peace and co-operation organization, also called the fair treatment
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the Nazi government began to exterminate men and women with mental or phisical disabilities, and to persecute minority groups, including Jews and Gypsies
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The Second World War started in 1939, with Britain, France, Rusia and later USA
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President Roosevelt declared that four freedoms were essential for all people
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in 1945 the second world war ended but long before that governement leaders declared the comitent to the rights of humans
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the League of Nations was replaced by the United Nations
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It was signed up in 1948
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The Feminist movements campaigned for women rights
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The liberation movements in South America demanded freedom from Dictatorship
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the UN sent 60 peace keeping missions to areas of conflict