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539
Ciro cylinder
In the year 539 a. C, Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, conquered the city of Babylon. He freed the slaves, declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion and established racial equality. These and other decrees were engraved on a clay cylinder in the Akkadian language with cuneiform script. Known today as Ciroindro de Ciro, it has been recognized as the first document of human rights in the world. -
1215
Magna Carta
In 1215, after King John of England violated a number of laws, his subjects forced him to sign the Magna Carta, which enumerates what later came to be regarded as human rights. Among them were the rights of all free citizens to own and inherit property and to be protected from excessive taxes. Considered widely as one of the most important legal documents in the development of modern democracy. -
The Petition of the Right
Prepared in 1628 by the English Parliament and sent to Charles I as a declaration of civil liberties. Initiated by Sir Edward Coke, it enforces four principles: No tax can be collected without the consent of the Parliament, no subject can be imprisoned without a proven cause, no soldier can be quartered with citizens, and can not be used martial law in times of peace. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
In 1789, the people of France caused the abolition of an absolute monarchy and created the platform for the establishment of the first French Republic. Just three weeks after the abolition of feudalism, the National Constituent Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens. The Declaration proclaims that all citizens must be guaranteed the rights of "freedom of property, security and resistance to oppression". -
Decree May 20, 1820
Simon Bolivar wishing to correct the abuses introduced in Cundinamarca in most of the towns of nature, as well as against their liberties, and considering that this part of the population of the Republic deserves the paternal attentions of the government, has come to decree: "Article 1 : All lands that formed the reservations according to their titles will be returned to the natives, as legitimate owners, whatever may be claimed by the current holders to possess them ... -
The Attorney General of the Nation
The Office of the Attorney General of the Nation is created to be in charge of controlling and defending the interests of the government and of the population in general, promoting the laws, intervening with the ecclesiastical authorities, the FFMM, the courts and establishing laws of public order. -
Rionegro Convention - Political Constitution United States of Colombia
They shaped the most liberal political charter in the history of Colombia. The death penalty was abolished, the freedom of cults was imposed, the absolute freedom of printing was determined, due process was strengthened and the law of nations was incorporated into legislation to settle civil wars through humanitarian agreements. Article 91 enshrined the right of people, through which the excessive use of force by the actors of the wars was impeded -
The First Geneva Convention
Sixteen European countries and several countries of America attended a conference in Geneva. The diplomatic conference was held with the purpose of adopting an agreement for the treatment of soldiers wounded in combat. The most important principles stipulate the obligation to provide medical care without discrimination, to respect the transport and equipment of medical personnel with the distinctive sign of the red cross on a white background. -
Civil rights and social guarantees
In the Constitution of 1886 begins to recognize in a clear way the natural rights that are stipulated in the title III of the aforementioned Charter, undertakes the struggle to consolidate a catalog of civil rights and social guarantees, which are inherent to people by the just made to exist as human beings.
Article 19 of the Constitution of 1886 gives both nationals and foreigners the protection of life, honor and property. -
United Nations Organization Foundation
The goal of the United Nations Conference on International Organization was to create an international body to promote peace. The ideals of this were established in the preamble to the Constitutive Act they proposed: We, the people of the United Nations, are determined to protect future generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lives has produced untold suffering to humanity. Entered into force on October 24, 1945, date that is celebrated every year as United Nations Day. -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The western liberal tradition was accepted as the basis of an order that required all states, regardless of their traditions, to respect the rights of their own citizens. This consensus was decisive in the fall of the socialist governments, which defended a different interpretation of human rights. Colombia was easily incorporated into this order, to the extent that it coincided with its norms and traditions. -
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Law 74 of 1968 approves the "International Covenants on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Civil and Political Rights, as well as the Optional Protocol of the latter, approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in a unanimous vote, in New York, December 16, 1966 " -
Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
Law 51 of 1981 approves the "Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women", adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 18, 1979 and signed in Copenhagen on July 17, 1980 " -
Counseling for the Defense, Protection and Promotion of Human Rights
In 1987, under the chairmanship of Virgilio Barco, the Human Rights Office of the Presidency of the Republic was opened with the name of "Counseling for the Defense, Protection and Promotion of Human Rights" through Presidential Decree 2111 of the same year. The opening of this office marked a milestone in the public and political treatment of the human rights issue in Colombia. -
Constitution of Colombia of 1991
Article 1 Colombia is a social State governed by law, organized in the form of a unitary, decentralized Republic, with autonomy from its territorial entities, democratic, participatory and pluralistic, based on respect for human dignity, work and solidarity of the people that integrate it and in the prevalence of interest
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Ombudsman's Office
Law 24 of 1992 Approves the Creation of the Office of the Ombudsman as a body that is part of the Public Ministry, exercises its functions under the supreme direction of the Attorney General of the Nation and is responsible essentially for the promotion, exercise and dissemination of the Human rights. -
Protocol of San Salvador
Law 319 of 1996 of the Congress of the Republic approves the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights "Protocol of San Salvador", signed in San Salvador on November 17, 1988 -
Presidential Program on Human Rights and IHL
In 2000, Decree 1636 was issued through which the Presidential Program for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law was created, under the immediate supervision of the Vice President of the Republic. -
Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons.
The Congress of the Republic with Law 707 of 2001 approves the "Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons", made in Belém do Pará, on June 9, 1994 -
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Participation of Children in Armed Conflict
Law 833 of 2003 approves the "Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the participation of children in armed conflicts", adopted in New York, May 25, 2000 -
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances
Law 1418 of 2010 approves the "International Convention for the Protection of All Persons against Enforced Disappearances", adopted in New York on December 20, 2006. -
Assistance, attention, integral reparation and land restitution
Decree - Law 4635 of 2011 that establishes the regulatory and institutional framework for assistance, assistance, integral reparation and restitution of land and the rights of victims belonging to black, Afro-Colombian, Raizales and Palenqueras communities
