Calls for Reform and Responses
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage
of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
—Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)
Learning Objectives
- E: Explain how social categories, roles, and practices have been maintained and challenged over time.
In the age of global economics, global transportation and communication, and
global devastation from war, human rights were, for the first time, also elevated to the level of global discourse, which challenged long-held assumptions about race, class, gender, and religion. Efforts to establish and safeguard human rights opened doors of educational and professional opportunity and political participation for some who had previously been excluded. People sought liberation from the “continuing bondage,” in Nelson Mandela’s terms, that had kept them in poverty. People around the globe also began to protest the inequalities and environmental damage that globalization had created or reinforced.
Sections
An Era of Rights
Steps toward Gender Equality
Steps toward Racial Equality
Human Rights Repression in China
Steps toward Environmental Repair
Steps toward Economic Fairness
Think As a Historian: THINK AS A HISTORIAN: HUMAN RIGHTS IN A DIGITAL AGE
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Reflect
REFLECT ON THE TOPIC ESSENTIAL QUESTION
1. In one to three paragraphs, explain how social categories, roles, and practices have changed and stayed the same since 1900.
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