Word: human
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indifference and for silence." Carter said that he had vowed "to reaffirm our unshakable commitment that such an event will never recur on this earth again." The only way to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, he said, was to "harness the outrage of our memories to banish all human oppression from the world...
...Ginzburg, 42, was constantly harassed and finally imprisoned for writings critical of Communist life. He further antagonized authorities by becoming a self-appointed monitor of Moscow's compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord. He was brought to trial once again last summer for his role in helping political prisoners with a fund set up by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Defiant as ever, he was sentenced to eight years of hard labor...
...Human rights court rebukes England for gagging the press...
...barons sat King John down to sign the Magna Carta. So there was considerable irony in the fact that an international court, born out of the Holocaust to prevent the rise of another Nazi Germany, solemnly declared last week that Great Britain had failed a basic test of human rights. Free expression, ruled the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights, had been denied by a longstanding English law that stifled the press and allowed a national scandal to go virtually unreported for a decade...
...England, that is. In 1974 the Sunday Times took its case to the 25-year-old European Commission of Human Rights in Strasbourg. When the commission decided the Sunday Times case was worth hearing a year later, the English government and the courts began backing down. By then, it would have been absurd not to. Almost all the Thalidomide litigation was settled, leaving little to be prejudiced by the press. The dam finally broke: in 1976, the Sunday Times was allowed to print for the first time a story that explicitly discussed Distillers' negligence. And in 1977, the commission...