* Abolition of the American and National league offices and presidencies, and inclusion of all umpiring crews into a common pool for AL and NL games, instead of having separate pools per league ( 2000 )

* 1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder ( but not for all crimes ) for a period of five years.

** The British Parliament passes the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British Empire their freedom ( enacted 1834 ).

The Master in Chancery Abolition Act 1852 abolished the Masters in Chancery, allowing all cases to be heard directly by judges instead of bounced back-and-forth between judges and Masters.

Between 1858 and 1876 Napier was the administrative centre for the Hawke's Bay Province, but in 1876 the " Abolition of Provinces Act ", an act of the Parliament of New Zealand, dissolved all provincial governments in New Zealand.

In 1905, the Slave Abolition Act ended Siamese slavery in all forms.

* Abolition of the obligatory character of the second national language ( Swedish in Finnish-language schools and vice versa ) in curriculums on all levels of education, freeing up time for the learning of other foreign languages such as English, German, French, Spanish and Russian ( especially in the eastern part of the country )

Slavery remained legal, however, until the British Parliament's Slavery Abolition Act finally abolished slavery in all parts of the British Empire effective August 1, 1834.

The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection ( BUAV ) is a British animal protection and advocacy group that campaigns for the abolition of all animal experiments.

Chiquinha was an active citizen, involved in all kinds of social movements that took place during her age in Brazil, such as the Abolition of Slavery and even the Republican movement.

The death penalty had already been abolished for all civilian offences, including murder ( Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 ) and treason ( Crime and Disorder Act 1998 ), but remained in force for certain military offences ( although these provisions had not been used for several decades ).

The practice of slave-owning was outlawed in Nova Scotia ( and all of the British Empire ) by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

However the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention adopted by International Labour Organization in 1957 prohibits all forms of forced labour

# Abolition of all national and religious privileges and restrictions

Bob Black in " The Abolition of Work " calls for the abolition of the producer-and consumer-based society, where, Black contends, all of life is devoted to the production and consumption of commodities.

Passage of the Abolition of the Death Penalty Act ended all capital punishment in New Zealand.

The Adelsaufhebungsgesetz of 1919 ( Law on the Abolition of Nobility ) abolished nobility as well as all noble privileges and, other than those in Germany, noble titles and names.

The majority of men and women who were awarded compensation under the 1833 Abolition Act are listed in a Parliamentary Return, entitled Slavery Abolition Act, which is an account of all moneys awarded by the Commissioners of Slave Compensation in the Parliamentary Papers 1837 – 8 Vol.

He once challenged William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips to a debate on “ the virtues of the Abolition Party and Political Platform .” On another occasion he challenged Henry Ward Beecher, Edwin H. Chapin and Andrew Jackson Davis to a debate on “ which is the smartest man in all points of view .” In April, 1854, he shared the stage with an all-star cast of eccentrics, including Father Lamson and John S. Orr (“ The Angel Gabriel ”) before an audience of thousands in Boston.

The Natives ( Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents ) Act, 1952, commonly known as the Pass Laws Act, made it compulsory for all black South Africans over the age of 16 to carry a " pass book " at all times within white areas.

The Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt ( CADTM ) is an international network of activists who strive to develop and implement radical alternatives that would contribute to the maintenance, and indeed retrieval, of fundamental human rights all over the world.

" Abolition of the hereditary vote ... is alleged to be phase one of a policy to substitute an elective Upper House for the existing chamber.

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

* 1854 May 14 – 15, The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

: May 14 – 15, San Antonio-The Texas State Convention of Germans adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

The Texas State Convention of Germans meet in San Antonio and adopt a political, social and religious platform, including: 1 ) Equal pay for equal work ; 2 ) Direct election of the President of the United States ; 3 ) Abolition of capital punishment ; 4 ) “ Slavery is an evil, the abolition of which is a requirement of democratic principles ..”; 5 ) Free schools – including universities-supported by the state, without religious influence ; and 6 ) Total separation of church and state.

* Abolition of separate military and religious courts ( the Ley Juárez )

Frankalmoin was the tenure by which the greater number of the monasteries and religious houses held their lands ; it was expressly exempted from the Tenures Abolition Act 1660, by which the other ancient tenures were abolished, and it was the tenure by which the parochial clergy and many ecclesiastical and eleemosynary foundations held their lands through the 19th century.

They were mostly students and members of the local vegetarian society, but the group included a friend of Pacheco's from the UK, Kim Stallwood, a British activist who went on to become the national organizer of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection.

The rapid increase in the number of convictions for public drunkenness was more a reflection of the growing population rather than social deterioration. In 1886, a national body called the New Zealand Alliance for Suppression and Abolition of the Liquor Traffic was formed, pushing for control of the liquor trade as a democratic right.

Clarkson, Wilberforce and the other members of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and their supporters, were responsible for generating and sustaining a national movement that mobilised public opinion as never before.

At The Parting Of The Ways — A cartoon from the May, 1919 IWW periodical One Big Union, published in Revolutionary Radicalism, shows a worker ( representing the working class ) choosing between an AFL slogan ( A Fair Day's Pay for a Fair Day's Work ) and an IWW slogan ( Abolition of the Wage System ). Anti-IWW cartoon from The American Employer, published 1913, with the Industrial Workers of the World organizing drive editorialized as " a volcano of hate stirred into active eruption at Akron, by alien hands, which pour into the crater the disturbing acids and alkalis of greed, class hatred and anarchy.

She also supported the rights of African-Americans, referring to " this cancer of slavery ", and suggested that those who were interested in the Abolition movement follow the same reasoning when considering the rights of women: " As the friend of the Negro assumes that one man cannot by right hold another in bondage, so should the Friend of Woman assume that Man cannot by right lay even well-meant restrictions on Woman.

* Abolition of specific programs which increase prison population, such as the prohibition of drugs ( e. g. War on Drugs ), gun control, prohibition of prostitution, and alcohol restrictions.

The Space Merchants, like such humanist documents as Joseph Wood Krutch's The Measure Of Man and C. S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man, considers what may result from the scientific study of human nature.

After an initial rejection, which he attributed to a `` general Excitement against Abolition and Emancipation '', Giffen bribed the right individuals on the jury, and got the permission without further delay.

The second half of the film `` Communism on the Map '' and the movie `` Operation Abolition '' also will be shown.

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force.

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

After Amadeus abandonment in 1873, Parliament declared the Federal Republic ( including the Cuba, Puerto Ico and he Pacific Archipelagos ), the first act of President Estanbislao Figueras was to extend the Abolition Act to Puerto Rico.

* 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.

* 1871 – Emperor Meiji orders the Abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration.

Organisations that had previously opposed British nuclear weapons supported CND, including the British Peace Committee, the Direct Action Committee, the National Committee for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Tests and the Quakers.

* 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

The Ilois, now called Chagos Islanders or Chagossians since the late 1990s, were descended primarily from slaves brought to the island from Madagascar by the French between 1793 and 1810, and Malay slaves from the slave market on Pulo Nyas, an island off the northwest coast of Sumatra, from around 1820 until the slave trade ended following the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

The annual $ 25, 000 prize is administered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale.

You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery.

This was achieved in the British Empire by the Slave Trade Act 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

It was superseded by the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 that abolished slavery across the British Empire.

Following the replacement of the Federal Court with the Supreme Court of India in January 1950, the Abolition of Privy Council Jurisdiction Act 1949 came into effect, ending the right of appeal to the Privy Council.

Wedgwood mass produced cameos depicting the seal for the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and had them widely distributed, which thereby became a popular and celebrated image.

The Abolition of Juries Act put paid to lay participation in 1969.

Webster helped found the Connecticut Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1791, but by the 1830s rejected the new tone among abolitionists that emphasized Americans who tolerated slavery were themselves sinners.

* 1965 – The Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom.

Lewis in his works Mere Christianity and The Abolition of Man.

* 1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.

In The Abolition of Britain, Peter Hitchens says: “ What Americans describe with the casual phrase.