Discussion
In the 19th century, human rights became a central concern over the issue of ................. .
Answer: A
The issue was slavery.
In the nineteenth century the campaign against the slave trade and slavery made human rights an international concern. Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in its colonies in 1833, the United States abolished slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, and the General Act of the Brussels Conference of 1890 was an early multilateral treaty against the slave trade.
Poverty, torture and disability became subjects of international human rights instruments only in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, for example the Convention against Torture of 1984 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of 2006.
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