Sean MacBride's Irish nationalist politics led him into a career as a journalist, politician, lawyer, and eventually human rights activist. Having lied about his age when still in his teens to graduate from the youth...
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4 November 1950: The European Convention on Human Rights (opened...
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4 November 1950
The European Convention on Human Rights
(opened for signature this day) set out, against a background of expansionist Soviet Communism, a declaration of Western beliefs in political and religious freedom and due process of law...
14 December 1973: The European Convention on Human Rights adopted...
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14 December 1973
The European Convention on Human Rightsadopted its Report on the British Commonwealth Immigration Act of 1 March 1968, concluding that British Asians refused entry to the UK had suffered degrading treatment.
Lester, Anthony. “East African Asians Versus the United Kingdom: The Inside Story”. The Odysseus Trust, 23 Oct. 2003, pp. 1-19.
