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| Alberta human rights law does not expressly mention sexual orientation, it should. |
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Denmark becomes the first country to legalize marriage to same sex couples.
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| Prohobiting interracial marriage as unconstitutional |
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Canada womens suffrage association is born from the womens literacy social progress club
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| Rape changes to sexual assault-equal protection to men and women |
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| Lester Pearson establishes a royal commission on status of women. |
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| American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a psychiatric disorder |
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| Holland extends marriage to same sex couples |
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Linden Johnson signs civil right act -govt power to enforce desegregation
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| Linden Johnson orders executive orders- enforce affirmative action |
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| Martin Luther King arrested in Birmingham |
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March on Washington
MLK delivers "I have a dream..." |
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| Plessy v. Ferguson segregation laws are within the bounds of constitution-- seperate but equal justifies legal segregation in southern USA |
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| Alberta equal suffrage act-gives women equality in provincial municipa and school affairs- vote and run for office |
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| Abraham Lincoln signs the emancipation proclomation- setting all slaves free in the USA |
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| "Jim Crow" /segregation law is passed in Tennessee mandating the seperation of African Americans from whites in trains/depots/wharves |
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| Jennie Kidd&Emily Stowe become the first women to be lisenced to practice medicine in CAD |
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Pierre Trudeau liberal govt decriminalizes contraception . abortion is legal under certain circumstances.
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| Canada elections gives all women the federal vote |
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| "Dont Ask Dont Tell"---becomes a law in USA |
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Stonewall Riots- Greenwhich Village
launch of the modern gay rights movement |
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| USA senate 65-31 vote to repeal "dont as dont tell" -allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the army. |
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| Massachusetts --first state to legalize gay marriage |
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| Canada is the 4th country to legalize gay marriage! |
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| Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus boycott |
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| Charter of rights and freedoms -Equality Clause |
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| Charter of rights and freedoms -right to equal protection + equal benefit of the law w/o discrimination |
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| Divorce laws allowing women the same rights as men |
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| Supreme court strikes down Canada's abortion laws as unconstitutional. |
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-a subset of human rights and civil liberties that specific to gay people
ex. marriage, discrimination |
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-Social and political rights afforded to the people of the country/promote equality and protect social and political freedom
ex. charter of rights and freedoms /right to vote |
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The duty to break the law in order to preserve the just character of the law.
ex.rosa parks |
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Properties of an object that are part of it physically, part of what makes it up.
ex. song- melody and tones |
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-group action
-large informal groupings of people/organizations that focus on specific poltical or social issues.They carry out, resist or undo a social change.
ex. through marches and stand ins. gay rights. |
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-poperties that dont depend on the object itself
-properties that change based on who is taking in the experience
ex.how the song appeals to you /makes you feel |
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A set of human rights that are specific to women and womens issues
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| the study of structures of conciousness, as experienced from the first person point of view. intentionality-being directed towards something-as an experience or about some object. |
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the values that govern the appropriate conduct of an individual group
-responsibility to others, integrity in relationships, respects for the dignity of others. |
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| The principles regarding the beliefs and values and practices of a culture from that culture itself. |
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