POLS 131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Potsdam Declaration, Helsinki Accords, Negative And Positive Rights
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State sovereignties prevented more human rights philosophies from emerging. Increasing globalization engendered greater global attention to human rights issues that transcended national boundaries. Antislavery campaign came in the nineteenth century. Most countries supported abolishing slavery at the congress of vienna in 1815. The anti-slavery convention was held in london in 1840 by the anti-slavery society helped to globalize human rights. The first geneva convention in 1864 was designed to humanize war by making rules for the treatment of the wounded and sick soldiers and sailors, prisoners of war, and medical personnel. The creation of the league of nations in 1919 made protecting inhabitants of depending territories and the trafficking of children and women. Franklin d. roosevelt committed the us to securing the four freedoms for the world: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion, freedom from economic hardship, and freedom from fear (this became the centerpiece of the.
