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