The Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH, "Human Rights League") is a French NGO founded on June 4, 1898, by the republican Ludovic Trarieux to defend captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew wrongly accused of treason - this would be known as the Dreyfus Affair. The LDH is a member of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH). Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... NGO is an abbreviation or code for: Non-governmental organization Nagoya Airport (IATA code) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... It has been suggested that Républicanisme be merged into this article or section. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... For other uses, see Treason (disambiguation). ... The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal which divided France during the 1890s and early 1900s. ... The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues, founded in 1922, is composed of 144 NGOs, among whom the French Ligue des droits de lhomme (LDH) and the Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights. ...

History

Dissolved by Vichy during World War II, it is clandestinely reconstituted in 1943 by a central committee, including Pierre Cot, René Cassin and Félix Gouin. The LDH is refounded after the Liberation. Paul Langevin, whom had recently joined the French Communist Party (PCF), became its president. The LDH called for demonstrations against the 1961 Alger putsch. For other uses of Vichy, see Vichy (disambiguation). ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Memorial for Cassin in Forbach/France René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887 – 20 February 1976) was a French jurist and judge. ... French politician Felix Gouin Félix Gouin (October 4, 1884 - October 25, 1977) was a French Socialist politician. ... Albert Einstein, Paul Ehrenfest, Paul Langevin, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Pierre Weiss at Ehrenfests home in Leiden Paul Langevin (January 23, 1872 â€“ December 19, 1946) was a prominent French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Algiers putsch (or Generals putsch) took place on 23 April 1961 in the midst of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). ...

Today

The LDH has opposed itself to the February 23, 2005 law on the "positive role of colonisation", which has been accused of being part of a revisionist discourse. President Jacques Chirac finally had the law, which had been voted by his UMP majority, repealed start of 2006. The LDH also took position in favor of the recognition of foreigners' right to vote in local elections end of December 2005. Besides, it took part in prisonners' movement organized since 1970 by the GIP (Groupe d'information sur les prisons, Group of Information on Prisons), founded by Michel Foucault and Daniel Deferre. The LDH also supports Italian former activist Cesare Battisti and American Ira Einhorn. The LDH has also opposed itself to Nicolas Sarkozy's repressive policies. In its 2003 report, it declared that "since the Algerian War we had never assisted in France at such a strong rollback of human rights". February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Colonisation (or colonization) is the act where life forms move into a distant area where their kind is sparse or not yet existing at all and set up new settlements in the area. ... Historical revisionism is the attempt to change commonly held ideas about the past. ... Jacques René Chirac (born November 29, 1932 in Paris) is a French politician and the current President of the French Republic. ... The Union for a Popular Movement (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire), initially named the Union for the Presidential Majority (Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle), and more usually known from its French acronym as simply the UMP, is the main French conservative political party of the right-wing. ... Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick, Canada is an institution that is part of the Correctional Service of Canada. ... Michel Foucault (IPA pronunciation: ; English-speakers pronunciation varies) (October 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher. ... Born in 1954, Cesare Battisti is a author of thrillers and a former member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism (PAC), a leftist group which supported armed struggle during Italys anni di piombo. He joined the organisation in 1976 and is alleged to have committed several murders in Italy... 1979 mugshot and a 2001 mugshot taken upon his arrival Ira Samuel Einhorn (born May 15, 1940) was an activist in the 1960s and 1970s who is now serving a life sentence for the murder of Holly Maddux in 1977. ... Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born 28 January 1955 in Paris, 17th arrondissement), simply known as Nicolas Sarkozy ( —  ), is a French politician, the second son of a Hungarian father, Paul Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, and French mother, Andrée Mallah. ... The Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) was a period of guerrilla strikes, maquis fighting, terrorism against civilians on both sides, and riots between the French army and colonists in Algeria and the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) and other pro-independence Algerians. ...

The LDH has filed a complaint end of 2005 concerning a CIA flight which landed in Le Bourget airport in the frame of the so-called "war on terror" (see March 2006 in Europe). Extraordinary rendition is an American extra-judicial procedure which involves the sending of untried criminal suspects, suspected terrorists or alleged supporters of groups which the US Government considers to be terrorist organizations, to countries other than the United States for imprisonment and interrogation. ... Le Bourget airport (Aéroport du Bourget) is an airport, located in Le Bourget, close to Paris, France, nowadays only used for general aviation (business jets) as well as air shows. ... The war on terrorism or war on terror (abbreviated in U.S. policy circles as GWOT for Global War on Terror) is an effort by the governments of the United States and its principal allies to destroy groups deemed to be terrorist (primarily radical Islamist organizations such as al-Qaeda...

End of 2004, the LDH counted 7,487 members, organized into 309 local sections and 57 federations. In 1932, it could boast 170,000 members. A map displaying todays federations. ...

List of presidents

• Ludovic Trarieux (1898-1903)
• Francis de Pressensé (1903-1914)
• Ferdinand Buisson (1914-1926, Nobel peace prize in 1927, along with the German Ludwig Quidde)
• Victor Basch (1926-1944)
• Paul Langevin (1944-1946)
• Sicard de Plauzoles (1946-1953)
• Emile Kahn (1953-1958)
• Daniel Mayer (1958-1975)
• Henri Noguères (1975-1984)
• Yves Jouffa (1984-1991)
• Madeleine Rebérioux (1991-1995)
• Henri Leclerc (1995-2000)
• Michel Tubiana (2000- 2005)
• Jean-Pierre Dubois (2005-)

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See also

• Caroline Rémy de Guebhard (1855-1929)

External links

• Official site