Human Rights League (French-speaking Belgium)
The Human Rights League (french: Ligue des Droits de l'Homme; nl, Liga voor de Rechten van de Mens) was founded in Belgium on 8 May 1901, after the in 1898 established ' in France. The Belgian initiative came from , a professor at the .Le prix Régine Orfinger-Karlin 2006 - Dossier de presse
page 18 'Plus de cent ans de Ligue des Droits de l'Homme', ''Ligue des droits de l’Homme'' asbl, 7 December 2006 (retrieved 23 February 2009) In the First World War, the organisation was dissolved. It reappeared several years after the war, as the ', or ''Belgian League for the Defense of Human and Civil Rights''. In the 1930s, its president

Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of . Belgium is part of an area known as the Low Countries, historically a somewhat larger region than the Benelux group of states, as it also included parts of northern France. The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Belgium is a sovereign state and a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Its institutional organization is complex and is structured on both regional ...
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