Human Rights League (France)

The French League for the Defence of Human and Civil Rights ( French Ligue française pour la défense des droits de l' homme et du citoyen ) was founded in 1898 with the aim to force the reopening of the Dreyfus trial. She emphasized in particular that since 1791 the French population would derive the same rights, regardless of their religious affiliation. Among the founders belonged to Ludovic Trarieux, who was president from 1898 to 1904.

Under their influence, called the German "Bund Neues Vaterland " in 1922 into German League for Human Rights.

The French league initiated in 1922 the establishment of the first international umbrella organization of human rights movement, the International Federation of ligues des droits de l' homme ( FIDH ).