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Emancipation means becoming free and equal; the term can be used in various contexts:
- historically, a slave becoming free by
- emancipation of the serfs in Russian Empire
- Jewish emancipation in which the Jews were given citizenship rights in France in 1791 and in the rest of Europe through the nineteenth century, particularly after 1848. In some parts of eastern Europe such as Romania Jews were not emancipated until after the First World War.
- a convict in the historic Australian penal colonies becoming free
- equal rights for races, as opposed to racism
- women's liberation, as opposed to sexism
- sexual liberation , as opposed to sexualism
- youth liberation , as opposed to ageismAgeism is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of age. Although theoretically the word can refer to the discrimination against any age group (e. prejudice specifically targeted at fortysomethings), ageism usually comes in one of two for
- a minorThe term minor (from Latin "smaller, lesser") has several meanings: Minor is a legal term for a young person, see Minor (law). Hence a younger brother or sister in British public school slang. The opposite is Major. In academia, a minor is a secondary foc becoming an adult in practice, usually by receiving a declaration of liberation from a court expressly for this purpose
- animal rightsAnimal rights is the viewpoint that animals have rights and are worthy of ethical consideration in how humans interact with them. Overview Animal rights is the concept that all or some animals are entitled to possess their own lives, and that animals are, as opposed to speciesismSpeciesism is the notional act of assigning different values or rights to beings on the basis of their biological species, by analogy with such terms as sexism and racism. The term is used and considered meaningful chiefly by advocates of extensive animal
See also Self-determinationSelf-determination is a principle in international law that a people ought to be able to determine their own governmental forms and structure free from outside influence. This principle was first articulated by Woodrow Wilson in his Fourteen Points; and w.
