Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (SOCHUM)

Agenda item:

1. Taking action in response to the global emergance of counter culture, new-left and anti war movement

Year: 1960

Description:

Particularly developed in Western Europe and USA, the common points of the cultural movements named counterculture, anti-war protests and new left were fundamentally based on a broad range of social, cultural and international issues such as American invasion of Vietnam, feminism, women’s rights, rejection of gender roles, human sexuality and African-American rights. These social movements distinguished many revolutionary names like Martin Luther King which are considered as heroes today, and also had a huge impact on changing the lifestyles in Western countries which is mainly based on rejecting cultural traditions, especially the new generations born after the WW2.