Category: Civil Rights, Philanthropy and Human Rights

Events, awareness days, holidays, and promotions celebrating or highlighting civil rights, philanthropy, and human rights.

The civil rights category includes events relating to philanthropy and human rights.

It also includes events that violate human rights as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Rome Statutes, rulings by the International Criminal Court, and definitions set forth by the United Nations. It includes work by NGOs, human rights organizations, historical events, anniversaries, social movements, laws, and other sources.

Each event includes up to six categories. To focus your results further, use Advanced Search to add categories and narrow your results (requires paid membership).

For example:

• Add the Legal category for international and national issues
• The Politics category narrows results to civil rights and freedom movements
• The Children category for children’s rights and charities.