Turning Points

[Michaelangelica]

Here is acompetition for "Turning Points" !
http://www.amnesty.org.au/resources/hre/nhc
I can't find the closing date.

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Changing society - human rights turning points through history"
National History Challenge 2006

* Your entry
* Ideas for topics
* Prizes
* How to enter
* About Amnesty International

The theme "turning points" in this year’s National History Challenge gives you a chance to look at some of the most inspiring and important events in history. Topics you could focus on include:

* the ending of apartheid in South Africa and the work of people like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu
* Gandhi's campaign for human rights in India - eg the salt march
* movements for women's rights and the work of people like Vida Goldstein, Louisa Lawson and Jessie Street
* the recognition of native title and the work of Eddie Mabo

You can choose a situation where people’s rights were abused, explore the challenges people faced in working for change, and investigate what it took to make change possible.

"Changing society - human rights turning points through history" is sponsored by Amnesty International Australia.
Your entry

Your entry needs to focus on

* a turning point related to a human rights issue
* what abuses of human rights were involved
* why these abuses were taking place
* how people challenged the situation that they faced and what made change possible
* relevant background information
* what campaigners for human rights achieved

Your entry could also look at:

* particular human rights from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: see simplified version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
* what an individual did to achieve change (eg Nelson Mandela, Eddie Mabo, Jessie Street)
* their own personal experience of human rights abuses and how this motivated them to work for change
* stages in achieving change
* using primary sources
* debates about the issues at the time
* why this turning point is seen as important today

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Ideas for topics

The human rights timelines below give you a wide range of human rights-related turning points from different periods in history.

* Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission timeline
* timeline pre twentieth century - Eleanor Roosevelt website, George Washington University
* timeline post twentieth century- Eleanor Roosevelt website, George Washington University
* University of Minnesota Peace Resource Centre timeline

The site also lists a number of other human rights Turning Points

[Panjandrum]

Not entierly the kind of turning point I had in mind. I would descibe these as the culminations of processes, and therefore more-or-less inevitable, rather than a dynamic event which might have gone either way.