Human Rights Milestones

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in which year?

Which country's system of racial segregation, known as apartheid, ended in the early 1990s?

The Geneva Conventions primarily protect the rights of whom during wartime?

Which 1948 UN convention specifically addressed the crime of genocide?

The Nuremberg Trials after World War II established the principle that individuals can be held accountable for what?

Which organization was founded in 1961 to campaign against political imprisonment and torture worldwide?

The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade by the British Empire occurred in which year?

The International Criminal Court (ICC), established to prosecute war crimes and genocide, is located in which city?

The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, is the most widely ratified human rights treaty. Which country has NOT ratified it?

Which leader's hunger strikes and nonviolent protest helped draw attention to Indian independence and human rights?

The European Convention on Human Rights was adopted in which year?

Which Polish labor leader and human rights activist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983?

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established in South Africa to address crimes committed during what era?

Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2014 for her advocacy of what?

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863, declared the freedom of enslaved people in which country?