Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of diseases known (or declared) to have been eliminated from the United States, either permanently or at one time.("Elimination" is the preferred term for "regional eradication" of a disease; the term "eradication" is reserved for the reduction of an infectious disease's global prevalence to zero.)
The Circassian genocide, [10] [11] or Tsitsekun, [a] [b] was the systematic mass killing, ethnic cleansing, and expulsion of between 95% and 97% [c] [d] of the Circassian people during the final stages of the Russian invasion of Circassia in the 19th century.
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. [a] [1]Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by means such as "the disintegration of [its] political and social institutions, of [its] culture, language, national feelings, religion, and [its ...
A child with smallpox.In 1980, the World Health Organization announced the global eradication of smallpox. It is the only human disease to be eradicated worldwide. Video recording of a set of presentations given in 2010 about humanity's efforts towards malaria eradication
The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition.
Chaco Canyon and the Pueblo Bonito (center), c. 828 BCE to c. 1126 CE, depicted in a 2007 NASA reconstruction Illustration of Cahokia, the largest Mississippian culture city ruin, c. 1050 CE to c. 1350 CE Artist's representation of the Kincaid site in Massac County, Illinois, c. 1050 CE to c. 1400 CE
The Cambodian genocide [a] was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens [b] by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea, Pol Pot.
This poster (published in the NSDAP's Office of Racial Policy's monthly magazine Neues Volk around 1938) urges support for Nazi eugenics to control the public expense of sustaining people with genetic disorders.