Part A-Timeline of Significant Events in the Changing of Rights and Freedoms of Indigenous Australians:
1948- It is stated on the Youth for Human Rights webpage After the Second World War, wife of Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, led a committee of people to write up a special document that stated the basic human rights that everyone in the world should have. This Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the general assembly of the United Nations (UN) on the 10th of December, 1948 according to the Australian Human Rights Commission. The newly formed UN felt strongly for the declaration because of the monstrosities and disregard to human rights during the Second World War. This was the first time countries had agreed on a comprehensive set of human rights. The UN webpage reads that it set out, for the first time, a standard of necessities in regards to human rights that countries ratifying it had to follow.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is not a treaty so therefore isn’t legally binding for countries that choose to endorse it in there legislation. The declaration basically says that human rights are universal, to be enjoyed by all people, no matter who they are or where they come from. …show more content…
The National Museum of Australia (2014) report on the freedom rides stated that the activists received comments from the Australian public that they should “look to their own back yard if they wanted to draw attention to racial discrimination”. In 1964 a group of students from the University of Sydney formed a group they called the Student Action for Aborigines (SAFA). Charles Perkins who was an aboriginal man in his third year of art at the University was elected president of the movement. Inspired by techniques used by the civil rights activists in America, the students decided to organise a bus trip to Western and Coastal towns in
1948- It is stated on the Youth for Human Rights webpage After the Second World War, wife of Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, led a committee of people to write up a special document that stated the basic human rights that everyone in the world should have. This Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the general assembly of the United Nations (UN) on the 10th of December, 1948 according to the Australian Human Rights Commission. The newly formed UN felt strongly for the declaration because of the monstrosities and disregard to human rights during the Second World War. This was the first time countries had agreed on a comprehensive set of human rights. The UN webpage reads that it set out, for the first time, a standard of necessities in regards to human rights that countries ratifying it had to follow.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is not a treaty so therefore isn’t legally binding for countries that choose to endorse it in there legislation. The declaration basically says that human rights are universal, to be enjoyed by all people, no matter who they are or where they come from. …show more content…
The National Museum of Australia (2014) report on the freedom rides stated that the activists received comments from the Australian public that they should “look to their own back yard if they wanted to draw attention to racial discrimination”. In 1964 a group of students from the University of Sydney formed a group they called the Student Action for Aborigines (SAFA). Charles Perkins who was an aboriginal man in his third year of art at the University was elected president of the movement. Inspired by techniques used by the civil rights activists in America, the students decided to organise a bus trip to Western and Coastal towns in