page_title: Human rights movement
section_title: Issues and activities
hierarchical_section_title: Human rights movement / Issues and activities
caption_attribution_description: United Workers picketers.
context_page_description: Human rights movement refers to a nongovernmental social movement engaged in activism related to the issues of human rights. The foundations of the global human rights movement involve resistance to: colonialism, imperialism, slavery, racism, segregation, patriarchy, and oppression of indigenous peoples.
  A key principle of the human rights movement is its appeal to universality: the idea that all human beings should struggle in solidarity for a common set of basic conditions that has to be followed by all.
context_section_description: The international human rights movement is concerned with issues such as deprivation of life and liberty, deprivation of the right of free and peaceful expressions, gatherings and worship, equal treatment regardless of individual background, and opposition to unjust and cruel practices such as torture. Other issues include opposition to the death penalty and to child labor.
  Much of the human rights movement is local in nature, concerned with human rights violations in their own countries, but they rely on an international network of support. The international nature of the movement allows local activists to broadcast their concerns, sometimes generating international pressure on their home government. The movement generally espouses the principle that sovereignty ends where human rights begin. This principle justifies intervention across borders to rectify perceived violations.
  The human rights movement is also credited with supplying local activists with a vocabulary to use in support of their claims.
caption: United Workers demonstrating for human rights and fair development in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
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