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  • Understanding Hate
    • Introduction
    • What is Hate? >
      • Hate as an Emotion >
        • Papers: Hate as an Emotion
      • Hate as a Belief >
        • Papers: Hate as Belief
      • Hate as an Act >
        • Papers: Hate as an Act
      • Hate as a Policy >
        • Papers: Hate as Policy
    • The Roots of Hate >
      • Early Imprints >
        • When Needs are Not Met
        • Papers; Not Meeting Needs
      • What Are We Doing To Our Children? >
        • Children in Dire Circumstances
      • Effects of Trauma and Abuse >
        • Papers: Stress Effects
        • Papers: Trauma Abuse Effects
        • Links: Stress, Trauma Research
      • Causes and Effects of Bullying
      • Trauma, bigotry, violence linked
      • Authoritarian Upbringings >
        • Papers: Authoritarian Roots
        • Papers: SDO and Authoritarianism
      • Absolutism and Insularity >
        • Papers: Absolutism
      • Papers: Early Roots of Prejudice
      • Impaired Cognition >
        • Papers: Impaired Cognition
      • The Violent Brain >
        • Papers: Violent Brain
      • Roots of Violence and Cruelty >
        • Chart: Powderkeg Formula
        • Papers: Roots of Violence
        • Articles and Blog Posts
      • Ghosts of the Past >
        • Ripples of revenge
        • Papers: Ghosts of the Past
    • How Hate Manifests >
      • Chart
      • Everyday Hate >
        • Papers: Social Rejection
        • Papers: Bullying
      • Social Injustice and Discrimination >
        • Papers: Discrimination
        • Papers: Inequality
        • Articles: Inequality Effects
        • Articles: Cognitive Exhaustion
        • "White" Privilege
      • Stereotyping and Caricature >
        • Papers: Stereotyping
        • Stereotyping
      • Prejudice, Racism and Bigotry >
        • Articles and Blog Posts
        • Papers: Prejudice Racism
        • Papers: Skin color and face
        • Papers: InGroup Outgroup
        • Papers: Implicit Bias
        • Evolutionary Issues >
          • More blog posts
      • Dehumanizing >
        • Views about the outsider
        • Papers: Dehumanizing
      • Hate Crimes >
        • Papers: Hate Crimes
      • Hate Groups >
        • Links: Hate Groups Research
        • Papers and news: Hate Groups
      • Abuse of Power >
        • Papers: Abuse of Power
        • Evil Men: Tyrants, Dictators
        • Blogs and news
        • Articles: SDO and RWA
      • Xenophobia >
        • Papers: Xenophobia
      • Collective Rage >
        • Papers: Collective Violence
      • Extremism >
        • Papers: Terrorism
        • Papers: Extremism
      • Cruelty on Mass Scale >
        • Links
        • Papers: Cruelty on mass scale
    • Hate in the News >
      • News: Hate in America
      • News: Hate Trends Worldwide
      • Extremism: Current Trends: News
      • Authoritarianism Trends
    • Group Influence >
      • Search for Belonging >
        • Papers: Search for Belonging
      • Social Cognition and Learning >
        • Papers: Fairness
        • Papers: Social Cognition
      • Group Think >
        • Papers: Intergroup Dynamics
        • Papers: Group Think
      • Status and Stigma >
        • Papers: Status and Stigma
      • Conformity >
        • Papers: Conformity
      • Obedience and Compliance >
        • Papers: Obedience
      • Bystander Effect
    • Social Defenses >
      • Papers: Social Defenses
      • System Justification >
        • Papers: System Justification
      • Projection >
        • Papers: Projection
      • Denial >
        • Papers: Denial
        • Examples of Denial
        • Papers: Denialism
      • Attribution and Comparison >
        • Attribution Fallacies
        • Papers: Attribution
      • Cognitive Dissonance >
        • Papers: Cognitive Dissonance
    • Fanning the Flames >
      • Media and Persuasion
      • Papers: Persuasion
      • Papers: Indoctrination
      • Papers: Hate Speech
      • Papers: Attitude change
      • News: Cyberhate
      • Links
      • Media Effects in the News
      • Persuasion: Blog Posts and Articles
    • How We Fool Ourselves >
      • Mechanisms: Cognitive Biases and Heuristics >
        • Papers: Brain Tricks
        • Biases: Blogs and Articles
        • Biases organized
      • On Being Wrong
      • Probability and Decision-Making Biases >
        • Papers and articles
      • Memory Distortions >
        • Papers: Memory illusions
      • Perceptual Illusions >
        • Papers: Perceptual Illusions
        • Illusions: Blog Posts and Articles
      • Self-Deception >
        • Papers: Self-deception
      • Delusion, Confabulation >
        • Papers: Delusions
        • Papers: False Beliefs
      • Conspiracy Theories
      • Papers: Neural mechanisms mystical states
      • Brain and Spirituality: Articles
    • Brain and Belief >
      • What is a Belief? >
        • Papers: Belief Formation
        • Papers: Automaticity
      • Perception and Processing >
        • Papers: Perception
      • Salience and Tagging >
        • Papers: Salience
        • Papers: Essentialism
      • Creating Categories >
        • Papers: Categorizing
      • Cognitive Unconscious
      • Embodied Cognition >
        • Papers: Embodied Cognition
      • Emotion Cognition Interplay >
        • Papers
      • Creating a Story about the World >
        • Papers: Story Creation
      • Investing in Cherished Beliefs >
        • Papers
      • Identifying Self with Belief >
        • Papers
      • Search for Meaning >
        • Papers: Meaning
    • Search for Certainty >
      • Dogmatic Beliefs
      • Belief Perseverance
      • Papers: Feeling of Knowing
      • Papers: Rigid Dogmatic thinking
    • Index: All Biases, Distortions and Influences
  • Overcoming Hate
    • Overview of Topics
    • Introduction
    • Prevention >
      • Meeting Formative Needs of Children >
        • Papers: Child and Brain Development
        • Papers: nurturing, attachment bonding
        • Links: Development
      • Promoting Parental readiness >
        • Papers
        • Links: Helping Parents
      • Supporting Healthy Families >
        • Papers
      • Enhancing Resilience >
        • Papers
      • Cultivating Empathy and Conscience >
        • Roots of Morality
        • Empathic Imagination
        • Mirror Neurons
        • Empathy Programs
        • Links: Empathy
      • All papers: Morality and Empathy >
        • Papers: Roots of Morality and Conscience
        • Papers: Empathy Altruism Compassion
        • Articles, Posts: Empathy
        • Papers: Moral Decision-Making
        • Papers: Moral Cognition
        • Papers: Mirror Neurons
        • Articles: Prosocial Behavior
      • Long-Term Social Investment >
        • Papers
    • Education >
      • Enhancing Emotional and Social Skills >
        • Papers: Emotional Intelligence
        • Papers: Social Cooperation
        • Links: emotional development
      • Building Reflective Minds >
        • Critical Thinking >
          • Papers: Critical Thinking
        • Metacognition >
          • Papers: Metacognition
        • Perceiving Bias >
          • Papers: Perceiving Bias
        • Creative and Lateral Thinking >
          • Papers: Creative Thinking
        • Mindfulness >
          • Papers: Mindfulness
          • Blogs and articles
        • Interoception >
          • Papers: Interoception
        • Fluid and Flexible >
          • Papers: Fluid Intelligence
      • Cross-cultural Awareness >
        • Links: Cross-Cultural
        • Papers: Cultural Neuroscience
        • Articles: Cultural Awareness
      • Media Awareness >
        • Links
        • Papers
      • Teaching an Honest History >
        • Papers
        • Links: Honest History
      • Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility >
        • Papers
      • Ethics Training >
        • Papers
      • Whole Child Learning >
        • Papers
    • Intervention >
      • Social Support and Inclusion >
        • Papers: Social Support
      • Helping Children in Dire Conditions >
        • Papers: Helping children
      • Preventing Violence and Bullying >
        • Anti-bullying programs and resources
        • Helping At-Risk Kids
        • Papers on helping kids
      • Standing Up To Prejudice, Racism, and Bigotry >
        • Papers: Reducing Prejudice
        • Articles: Reducing Prejudice
        • Papers: Stopping hate crimes
        • Papers: Offsetting Extremism
        • Programs and Projects
        • Hatebraker Examples: News
      • Training Our Protectors >
        • Papers: Training Protectors
      • Healing the Hurt >
        • Papers: Healing Hurt
        • Articles and Blog Posts
      • Educating Our Leaders >
        • Papers: Educating Leaders
      • Resolving Conflict >
        • Papers: Resolving Conflict
        • Programs and articles
      • Israel-Palestine >
        • Papers: Israel-Palestine
        • News and blog posts
      • Promoting Dignity >
        • Links: Human Rights
        • Papers: Human Rights
      • Healing the Ghosts of the Past >
        • Papers: Reconciliation
      • Restorative Justice >
        • Papers: Restorative Justice
      • Confronting Mass Atrocities >
        • Papers: Confronting War Crimes
    • Social Advances >
      • Charters and Declarations
      • Slideshow: Social Advances
      • Links: social advances history
      • Timelines: Social Advances
    • More Solutions >
      • Classroom Tools
      • Organizations
      • Programs and Projects
      • Effective Models
  • Resources
    • Academic Papers: Topic Index
    • Background: Sciences Related to Hate >
      • Related Sciences of Hate
      • Social Psychology Subtopics
      • Brain and Life Sciences
      • New Research Tools
      • Links: Brain Mapping
      • Process of Science
      • What is Good Science?
      • Links: Understanding Science
      • Papers: About Good Science
    • Science Links
    • Timelines of Knowledge >
      • Index of all Pioneers
      • Timeline: Early Pioneers
      • Timeline: Group Psychology
      • Timeline: Prejudice
      • Timeline: Persuasion
      • Timeline: Social Psychology Pioneers
      • Timeline: Authoritarianism
      • Timeline: Scientific bias
    • Researchers and Experts >
      • Developmental Foundations
      • Moral Cognition, Empathy
      • Search for Meaning
      • Search for Belonging
      • Search for Certainty
      • Ghosts of the Past
      • Breaking Cycle of Hate: Solutions
    • Other Research and Studies >
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      • Bibliographies
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    • Recommendations >
      • Books: Topic Overview >
        • Development
        • Empathy, Morality
        • Brain and Belief
        • Tricks of Mind
        • Stress, Trauma, Violence
        • Prejudice, Racism, Stereotyping
        • Overcoming Prejudice, Racism
        • Historical Insight
        • Human Rights Abuses
        • Seminal Works
      • Journals and Magazines
      • Films and Videos
    • Timeline of Hate >
      • Links: Historical Injustice
      • History of Hate in America: articles
      • Index of Historical Injustice
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Links to Human Rights 
and Social Justice Charters

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  • Early Political and Civic Advancements
  • Human and Civil Rights Charters
  • Torture and Genocide
  • Children's Rights and Protections
  • Women's Rights
  • Anti-Racism, Apartheid, Discrimination
  • Slavery and Forced Labor
  • Forced Conscription
  • Prisoners and Detainees
  • Geneva Conventions
  • World Court and War Crimes
  • Environment and Sustainability
  • Poverty and Opportunity
  • Anti-Corruption
  • Internet Access and Freedom

Sample Innovative Charters

charter_for_compassion.pdf
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wmw_global_charter.pdf
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Key Database 
Sources

  • The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
  • Southern Freedom Movement Web Links
  • International Human Rights Instruments (University of Minnesota)
  • A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (Law Library of Congress)

Early Political and
Civic Advancements

  • Magna Carta [England - 1215]
  • English Bill of Rights: An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, and Settling the Succession of the Crown (Bill of Rights) [England - 1689]
  • United States Constitution
  • United States Bill of Rights [U.S. Constitution amendments I-X.]
  • The complete text of the original Bill of Rights
  • The complete text of the present Bill of Rights
  • All Amendments to the United States Constitution
  • Common Sense, Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776).
  • Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln, A Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863)
  • The Bill of Rights, a Summary: Introduction to the Foundation of Human Rights 
    From U.S. Dept. of Immigration

Human and Civil
Rights Charters
Anti-Torture

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Universal Human Rights in Progressive Thought and Politics. Part Four of the Progressive Tradition Series. 
John Halpin, William Schulz, and Sarah Dreier. Center for American Progress. 
October 2010
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  • U.N. CHARTER: June 26, 1945. Entered into force Oct. 24, 1945. 
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 1948
  • Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: 1975
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Entered into force: Mar. 23, 1976.
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: (1966) Entered into force: Jan. 3, 1976.
  • Protection From Torture, Ill-Treatment and Disappearance 
  • Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: 1987

  • Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action: Adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, 25 June 1993
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Children's Rights
and Protections

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  • Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1924:  
        Adopted Sept. 26, 1924, League of Nations 
  • Declaration of the Rights of the Child: Adopted 1959
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child 1990 
  • Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (ILO No. 182) Adopted 2000
  • UNICEF Guidelines for the Protection of the Rights of Children Victims Trafficking in Southeastern Europe 2003

Women's Rights

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  • Convention on the Political Rights of Women: 1954
  • Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict: 1974
  • Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: 1981
  • Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women: 1993
  • Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: 2000
  • Women's United Nations Report Program & Network (WUNRN) is a non-governmental coalition to implement the conclusions and recommendations of a United Nations Study on Freedom of Religion of Belief and the Status of Women From the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions   

Anti-Racism and Discrimination


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  • International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Entered into force Jan. 4, 1969
  • International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid: 1976
  • Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief: 1981
  • Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice: 1982
  • Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious or Linguistic Minorities: 1993
  • Declaration of Principles on Tolerance:  UNESCO: 1995
  • World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance: Adopted on September 8, 2001 in Durban South Africa
  • NEW YORK: 22 Sep 2011 UN summit marks 10th anniversary of racism declaration

Slavery
Forced Labor




  • Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour and Similar Institutions and Practices Convention of 1926 (Slavery Convention of 1926), March 9, 1927. 
  • International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women of Full Age, entered into force Aug. 24, 1934.
  • Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, Supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, entered into force Dec.25, 2003.
  • Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour (ILO No. 29), entered into force May 1, 1932.
  • Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (ILO No. 105), entered into force Jan. 17, 1959.
  • Guide to the New UN Trafficking Protocol
  • Guide to the UN Convention of 2 December 1949 for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons
  • 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

Prisoners 
and Detainees


  • Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. First United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Adopted Aug. 30, 1955
  • Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment: 1988
  • Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners

Geneva 
Conventions 

  • 1864 - Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded on the Field of Battle 
  • 1928 - Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating Gas, and for Bacteriological Methods of Warfare 
  • 1929 - Convention Between the United States of America and Other Powers, Relating to Prisoners of War 
  • 1949 - Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field 
  • 1949 - Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea 
  • 1949 - Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 
  • 1949 - Convention (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 
  • 1975 - Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (1972) 

World Court
and War Crimes

  • Convention with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land: (Hague, II) Adopted September 4, 1900.
  • Convention Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land: (Hague IV) Adopted January 26, 1910.
  • Nuremberg Rules, in Agreement for the Prosecution and Punishment of the Major War Criminals of the European Axis: Adopted Aug. 8, 1945.

Poverty and
Economic Opportunity

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  • Employment Policy Convention (ILO No. 122), entered into force July 9, 1965.
  • Convention concerning the Promotion of Collective Bargaining (ILO No. 154), entered into force Aug. 11, 1983.
  • Convention concerning Occupational Safety and Health and the Working Environment (ILO No. 155), entered into force Aug. 11, 1983.
  • International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, entered into force July 1, 2003. 
  • Convention concerning Minimum Wage Fixing, with Special Reference to Developing Countries (ILO No. 131), entered into force April 29, 1972.
  • Recommendation concerning Minimum Wage Fixing, with Special Reference to Developing Countries  June 22, 1970.
  • Convention concerning the Protection of Wages (ILO No. 95), entered into force September 24, 1952.
  • ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, 
    June 18, 1998
  • Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition, adopted by the World Food Conference, Rome, (1974).
  • Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, Report of the 30th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), Annex 1 (2004). 
  • The Practice of Forced Evictions: Comprehensive Human Rights Guidelines On Development-Based Displacement, adopted by the Expert Seminar on the Practice of Forced Evictions, Geneva, 11-13 June 1997.
  • A Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategies: Draft Guidelines, 
    10 September 2002.


 Environment 
and Sustainability


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  • Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, 1972
  • Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development June 1987
  • United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
  • Agenda 21
  • United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) December 1992  implementing a recommendation in Chapter 38 of Agenda 21 
  • United Nations Conference on Environment & Development / Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro. June 1992 
  • Dublin Statement on Water and Sustainable Development, International Conference on Water and the Environment: Development Issues for the 21st Century, Dublin, Ireland (1992).
  • Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 1998, entered into force Feb. 16, 2005.
  • Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, June 25, 1998, entered into force Oct. 30, 2001.
  • The Need to Ensure a Healthy Environment for the Well-Being of Individuals, 
    (1990).
  • Open-Ended Working Group on an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Draft Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, (Apr. 4, 2008).
  • Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
  • World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, August/September 2002
  • Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development
  • Commission on Sustainable Development
  • UN DESA - Division for Sustainable Development
  • Sustainable Development Issues Network
  • Stakeholder Forum

Internet Access 
and Freedom


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  • Article 19, paragraph 3, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.