When did human rights become civil rights?
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It hasn't.\nHuman rights are a bit more basic, the big three are the right to life, the right to be free from slaveryand the right to be free from torture. \nCivil rights are things like the ability to earn the same wage as someone else doing the same job, other, more legal, governmental, or civil types of issues.
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In the 60's when THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL was signed,they were miles apart.In the 40 some odd years since them let's hope they have grown to workable groups. As Americans we need those groups to succeed.In my latest readings, there is some evidence it is.
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If by equal rights you mean one group had a chance to be discriminated against, now the other group has that same chance, then sure.  If you mean the same rights to all people regardless of race, color or creed, then no.
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There isn't really any such thing as "human rights laws" per se. There is the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which many countries have signed, but is non-binding. That's as close as you could really get.
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Women won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920. Some states had passed laws prior to 1920 giving women the right to vote, and some women had won election to public office before the 19th Amendment became law. Women in England did not win full voting rights until 1928, however.
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If you are referring in general terms, the states have been formed under the power of the few. The masses, progressively got power and requested laws and regulations protecting them. Thus, Human Rights Act have risen around the globe.\nIn the case of the USA, early in the foundation of the USA, they understood the need of forming and supporting This act, in order to secure and guarantee the rights of all the people, just in case some group would get superpowers. Of course, this did not stop some groups to proceed in wrong acts (a day like today is when McCarthyism executed the Rosembergs, an act the later the judicial system admitted its severe mistake!)
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It started shortly after the civil war in one of the southern states that was opposed to blacks getting their freedoms. It was started by a bunch of Bigots who thought they were doing good by getting rid of freemen.
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Malaysia is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but the legislation that created the National Human Rights Commission (Suhakam), also restricts the application of the Declaration to those "fundamental liberties provided for" in the Constitution and to those provisions consistent with the Constitution. In 1999 prior to Suhakam's creation, opposition leaders and non-governmental organizations, including the Bar Council, criticized the definition of human rights as too narrow.\n\nHowever, following former Suhakam Chairman Musa Hitam's October 2001 statement that human rights would need to take a back seat in the fight against terrorism, the Commission has assumed a lower profile in carrying out its mission and has not often publicly challenged the government on sensitive subjects. The new Chairman of the Commission, former Attorney General Abu Talib, appears to favor a low-key, behind-the-scenes approach to promoting human rights.[1861]
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Yes - they are set out in the Bill of Rights and elsewhere in the US Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, and case decisions. There are also rights set out in the various state constitutions that may be stronger than the federal alws.\n\nMany of these rights apply only to government actions. Some also apply to private actions that affect the public.
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I don't know if this fits in with the emphasis in your class, but this is my personal view...\n\nHistorically, when human rights were being defined women were not included.\n\nFor example: The US Constitution was written to protect and preserve the rights of citizens of the newly-formed United States. Women, however, were not believed to have all of the rights enshrined in that document and had to struggle to have their rights as citizens recognized.\n.\nAlthough any discussion of human rights includes women by definition, the overall umbrella of "human rights" is not always seen as addressing issues specific to the female gender. These issues include child-bearing, sexual abuse and oppressive cultural traditions/laws which prevent women from enjoying the "human rights" that men have.\n\nIn a nutshell, when someone says "women's rights" they are  talking about human rights that women do not have yet---or they are discussing something gender-specific.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Unfortunately the humans are victims of humans.\nOne human has acquired the responsibility to allow or not the rights to another.\nDefinition varies from place to place, citizen to citizen.\nThese are important to those who want their rights but does not matter for those who haves to respect these rights.
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Landless white men: 1856 \nNon-whites: 1870 \nWomen: 1920 \nNative Americans: 1924 \nAdults between 18 and 21: 1971\n\nThe Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, one of three adopted in response to the American Civil War, prevented any state from denying the right to vote to any male citizen twenty-one years old or older on account of his race. Particularly in the South, however, many practical barriers were erected to this becoming a reality. Most abused was the literacy test. The ability to read and write the English language was not banned as a basis for determining voter eligibility by this amendment and blacks were often denied the right to vote on this basis. Even literate blacks were often told they had "failed" such a test, if in fact, it had even actually been administered. On the other hand, illiterate whites were often allowed to vote through a "Grandfather clause" which waived literacy requirments if one's grandfather had been a qualified voter, which for most blacks in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War was an impossibility. Selective enforcement of the poll tax was frequently also used to disqualify black voters, a fact which led to the eventual adoption of the Twenty-fourth Amendment. Intimidation tactics were employed to bar blacks from voting as well, such as "night rides" by the Ku Klux Klan. Economic tactics such as eviction from rental housing or termination of employment were also used . Such practices did not fully end until the American Civil Rights Movement scored one of its greatest triumphs when it encouraged the passage by Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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The term "human rights" generally refers to the basic protections that most civilized countries afford.\n\nThe most common include freedom from slavery, freedom to marry who you choose, freedom of expression and worship, freedom to own property, freedom from torture and persecution, and so on.\n\nThe details vary by country and applicable law, but the basic idea is that people should be allowed to live their lives in such a way as they choose, as long as they don't harm others in the process.\n\nSadly, many countries (including the US recently) have abandoned this concept in the name of conformity and security.
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Interestingly enough, the 1960's era civil rights movement in America was HIGHLY influenced by Reverand Martin Luther King-whose claim was that the moral laws of God were not being carried out in the laws of America, he used the lack of equality as an example of this. \n\nThis is religion in government. Also, growth in the popular movement for Americans to free their slaves came about because most Northern abolitionists were preachers and church goers who thought slavery was a sin against man. This is why they wanted slave laws removed from their legal systems. \n\nReligion plays a very important role, and though we may claim to govern "secularly" there is no way around the moral influence of religion.
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They are all Human Rights. Human Rights are the basic rights given to individuals irrespective of his sex, race, nationality, caste, color, etc.
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Since when has life ever been fair
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Cyrus the Great (of Persia) in 539BC issued a series of proclamations (written on the "Cyrus cylinder"). Among other things, it guaranteed religious freedom and abolished slavery. This is the earliest surviving human rights declaration.