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Chief editors: PD Dr. Fabian Klose / Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann
Leibniz Institute of European History
Alte Universitätsstraße 19

55116 Mainz

Germany

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Photography credits

Photographs used in the header (from left to right):

  • The Emblem of the British Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1795 (public domain, from Wikimedia Commons)
  • Presentation of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789 (public domain, from Wikimedia Commons)
  • The Red Cross and the Red Crescent Emblems at the Museum in Geneva, photo by Julius Kusuma (Creative Commons, from Wikimedia Commons)
  • Former U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with the English Version of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, November 1949 (public domain, from Wikimedia Commons)

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