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    Seneca Falls Convention The Seneca Falls Convention was the first woman’s rights convention in the United States. The assembly was organized by many women who were present in abolition and temperance movements, and lasted for two days, July 19–20 on 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. The convention’s main purpose was to bring attention to unequal treatment of women, and brought about 300 women, including around 40 men. The Seneca Falls Convention played a major role in women’s rights throughout the

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    denial to take part at the London Anti-Slavery Convention, Stanton and Mott along with many other American women feminists such as Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Abby Kelley Foster, and Ernestine all came together on July 9th, 1848 and agreed to take immediate action on women’s rights issues. The decided to hold the first ever Women’s Rights Convention in American History ten days later at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York. The convention would last two days, the first day was only open

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    Paragraph: On July 19, 1849, 300 people arrived for the Seneca Falls Convention. Similarly to the Declaration of Independence, they made the Declaration of Sentiments, which listed the acts of tyranny of men over women. Before this convention, women were not allowed to speak in most meetings. This angered many women, inspiring them to fight for women rights. One example of this was during the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840. Men did not even want them to watch, so they tried to hide

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    - Anything that is italicized needs to be rewritten The European Convention on Human Rights. Exactly what is it and what are its aims? Its an international treaty which only member States of the Council of Europe may sign. The Convention lays a basic groundwork of all rights and guarantees which the States have to be held to. These rights include the freedom of though, expression, conscience, religion, effective remedy, peace enjoyment of possessions, and the right to vote and to stand for election

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    1848 The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s rights convention, called for women’s suffrage The convention adopted the Declaration of Sentiments based on the Declaration of Independence. Only two of the participants of the convention were able to live to see the addition of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment gave women the right to vote. The convention was the first of its kind. The convention did have a significant impact in the long run, but it was seen by

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    The Seneca Falls Convention took place in New York , in July of 1848. It was the first national women's rights convention as well as a pivotal event in the story of the United States and women's rights. The idea for this convention occurred in London in 1840 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who attended a meeting of the World Anti-Slavery Society, happened to be denied the opportunity to speak on the floor or to be seated as one of the delegates. They left the hall where the meeting

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    The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) can be defined as an international agreement initiated within the Council of Europe, which was established in 1949 in Strasbourg in France in order to unify Europe after the Second World War (Harries et al., 2014; O 'Boyle, 2014). According to Donald et al., (2012), United Kingdom was among the first countries to adopt and has played an important role in ECHR creation at that time. In 1966, the petition and jurisdiction of UK’s citizens was voluntary

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    The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women’s right convention which held in Seneca Falls, New York and it spanned two days over July 19th and 20th in the year 1848. It was a convention to discuss the social, civil and religious condition and rights of a women. This convention was organized by two ladies, Lucretia Mott who was famous for her oratorical ability and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This meeting had almost six different sessions which include a humorous presentation, About the Law and the

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    Seneca Falls Convention and drafting the Declaration of Sentiments they highlighted the issues that needed to change. This is recognized as the beginning of the women’s rights movement. The early 19th century in the United States was a period of many social upheavals and reforms including women’s rights. The women's rights movement in the United States began with a convention held at the Wesleyan Church chapel located in Seneca Falls, New York, which became known as the Seneca Falls Convention. Approximately

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    The way women were perceived and thought of had to change. The Seneca Falls Convention, one of the beginning actions of the Women’s Rights Movement, lead to women fighting for their rights which eventually allowed women to have equal rights, the ability to vote, and to advance in the political field. The Women’s Rights Movement had to start somewhere in history. The Movement started in 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention where women came together at a tea gathering to discuss injustice of American

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