Human Rights

Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable, fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being" and which are "inherent in all human beings", regardless of their age, ethnic origin, location, language, religion, ethnicity, or any other status. They are applicable everywhere and at every time in the sense of being universal, and they are egalitarian in the sense of being the same for everyone. They are regarded as …

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11 May 2022 English

Gill Bennett, Anthony Glees, Michael Goodman, Matthew Jones, Michael Morgan and Denis Smyth

on international history and the history of human rights. Denis Smyth Denis Smyth is a Professor in


5 May 2022 English

Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.

actions to be taken against various countries over human rights issues. FCO 28/3106 7-8 Textual A biographical but it was a riposte to British criticism of human rights and treatment of minorities in the Soviet Union


5 May 2022 English

List of files retained by the British government that are not available in Cold War Eastern Europe

Union visa1982 Jan 01 - 1982 Dec 31 FCO 28 5146 Human rights in the Soviet Union: general papers 1982 Jan


4 May 2022 English

Editorial description of the content of Cold War Eastern Europe

Security and Migration ● Dissent, Resistance, and Human Rights ● Domestic Politics ● Economics and Trade ●


1 January 2017 English

The Cold War in Europe was intertwined with the Second World War in a rather circular fashion. The East/West conflict arose from the circumstances of the end of the world …

End of the Cold War: Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972–1990 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019)


1 January 2017 English

Soon after the Allies defeated Germany in World War II, the country became the central battleground of the Cold War between the communist East and democratic, capitalist West. To prevent …

Act, which included a basket of provisions on human rights, such as freedom of travel and reunification


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

energy problems when they blatantly violate human rights in Eastern Europe; impose martial law in Poland Afghanistan who are trying to regain their human rights, democracy and national self-determinat- ion sympathise with your constituent's concern over human rights violations in the USSR. I can assure you that for an improvement in the deplorable Soviet human rights record. Soviet actions violate both the International needed improvement in the Soviet performance on human rights. The Soviet Union have also been reminded during


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

document at Madrid covering progress I on CDE and human rights (NATO May Ministerial communiqué - CSCE I document at Madrid covering progress on CDE and human rights (NATO May M i n i s t e r i a l communiqué - Madrid covering p r o g r e s s on CDE and human rights (NATO M a y | Ministerial communique - CSCE the Canadians' proposed experts' meeting on human rights should not lead to separations in this w a y ) two experts' meetings on security and on human rights. (The security meeting might consider upgrading


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

society. On Human Rights Day, in this Hall, the Soviet Delegate called our human rights concerns a "fuss understand, as the Final Act clearly directs, that human rights have directly to do with the indivi- dual's "masses" are attempting to obscure the absence of human rights in their own societies. Large groupings of no human rights for the many. It is also noteworthy that those states who deny the human rights of lack of concern and sensitivity for individual human rights. Allow me, Mr. Chairman, to give one vivid


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

They were on religion, journalists and the human rights experts meeting. Various delegations had undertaken BASIS OF MUCH STRENGTHENED REQUIREMENTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS (SUCH AS L I K E L Y TO PROVE UNACCEPTABLE REQUIREMENT WHICH WAS TOO STRONG ON THE RUSSIANS OK HUMAN RIGHTS WOULD BRING A30UT THE COLLAPSE OF THE WHOLE MANDATE ON OUR TERMS, DECOUPLIfiG IT FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMPONENT OF OUR P O S I T I O N WHICH THEY APPROACH, I.E., THE WEST TO TABLE A STRONG TEXT ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND AGREE TO CONCLUDE 3EF0RE CHRISTMAS. ASKED


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