Much of modern human rights law and the basis of most modern interpretations of human rights can be traced back to relatively recent European history. The Twelve Articles of the Black Forest (1525) are considered to be the first record of human rights in Europe. They were part of the peasants' demands raised towards the Swabian League in the Peasants' War in Germany. The British Bill of Rights (or “An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown”) of 1689 made illegal a range of oppressive governmental actions in the United Kingdom.
Two major revolutions occurred during the 18th century, in the United States (1776) and in France (1789), leading to the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen respectively, both of which established certain legal rights. Additionally, the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 encoded a number of fundamental civil rights and civil freedoms into law.
Human Rights
Human rights are "rights and freedoms to which all humans are free. Proponents of the idea usually state that all humans are gifted with certain entitlements merely by reason of being human.
Human rights are thus conceived in a Universalist and democratic fashion. Such entitlements can exist as shared norms of actual human morality, as necessary moral norms or natural rights support by strong reasons, or as legal rights either at a national level or within international law. However, there is no consensus as to precise nature of what in particular should or should not be regarded as a human right in any of the preceding senses, and the abstract concept of human rights has been a subject of intense philosophical debate and criticism.
The modern origin of human rights developed in the result of the Second World War, in part as a reply to the Holocaust; culminate in the signing of the Universal statement of Human Rights by the United Nations General meeting in 1948. However, while the phrase "human rights" is comparatively modern the intellectual basics of the modern concept can be traced through the history of philosophy and the concepts of natural law rights and liberties as far back as the city states of Classical Greece and the progress of Roman law. The true the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Forerunner of human rights conversation was the explanation concept of natural rights urbanized by figures such as John Locke and Immanuel Kant and through the political kingdom in the United States Bill of Rights and the statement of
Human rights are thus conceived in a Universalist and democratic fashion. Such entitlements can exist as shared norms of actual human morality, as necessary moral norms or natural rights support by strong reasons, or as legal rights either at a national level or within international law. However, there is no consensus as to precise nature of what in particular should or should not be regarded as a human right in any of the preceding senses, and the abstract concept of human rights has been a subject of intense philosophical debate and criticism.
The modern origin of human rights developed in the result of the Second World War, in part as a reply to the Holocaust; culminate in the signing of the Universal statement of Human Rights by the United Nations General meeting in 1948. However, while the phrase "human rights" is comparatively modern the intellectual basics of the modern concept can be traced through the history of philosophy and the concepts of natural law rights and liberties as far back as the city states of Classical Greece and the progress of Roman law. The true the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Forerunner of human rights conversation was the explanation concept of natural rights urbanized by figures such as John Locke and Immanuel Kant and through the political kingdom in the United States Bill of Rights and the statement of