In her 2007 book Inventing Human Rights: A History, researcher Lynn Hunt argues that our understanding that other people have universal, equal rights is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Part of a multimedia call-to-action in the name of universal equal rights, the event features works by artists such as Elizabeth McGrath, Gary Baseman, Luke Chueh, and Ron English, just to name a few.
He supports immigration reform, universal healthcare, equal rights for LGBT people, tighter environmental regulations and "commonsense" gun laws.
The Radical Enlightenment, he observes, "was condemned by all European governments and by all churches, because in principle it insisted on the universal and equal rights of men and the full emancipation of the black population".
What makes America exceptional among the countries of the world is that we are bound together as citizens not by blood or class, not by sect or ethnicity, but by a set of enduring, universal, and equal rights that are the foundation of our constitution, our laws, our citizenry, and our identity.
While dreaming to end capitalism, socialists effectively reformed it: universal adult suffrage, equal rights for all including women, legal aid, the eight-hour day, free medical service, and free education.
Her agenda is in line with the Sanders agenda: single-payer universal health care, equal rights for women and ethnic and sexual minorities, a fifteen-dollar minimum wage, guaranteed employment.
He instituted basic civil liberties e.g., the freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and religion; universal suffrage; and equal rights for women throughout Russia and became one of the most widely known and popular figures among the revolutionary leadership.
The next year he became president and began modernizing the country, ensuring universal education and mandating equal rights for women.
It was the first time member states agreed that equal rights and universal access to sexual and reproductive health services were essential for sustainable development.
The spread of alienated suburbs matters particularly to the French because the revolution and the republic -- and their universal resonance -- were about the equal rights of citizens.
