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3000 BCE
3000 BEFORE CHRIST
In the beginning of civilizations there were no human rights and therefore they did not exist either. If you were part of the right crowd, you were safe.But the rest were slaves without rights and subordinated by this small group. -
539 BCE
539 BEFORE CHRIST
Here appeared a king named Cyrus the king who decided to change everything, announcing that all the slaves were free. However, he said that everyone was free to choose their religion no matter what crowd they belong to. At these time human rights appeared. -
27 BCE
27 BEFORE CHRIST
At this moment, the idea that Cyrus the king diffusion, that quickly arrive in Greece, to India and to eventually Rome. They realized that humans naturally followed certain laws. But those who had the most power opposed to this, like always. -
1200
1215 - 1268 AFTER CHRIST
in England a king accepted that no one (not even a king) can overrule the human rights, called Magna Carta. At this moment the human rights were finally recognized. -
1776 AFTER CHRIST
It take a very large group of British rebels until the king said that all humans were created equal.but it was contradictory because India was at war against his empire, but he lost and it is why America was born. -
1789 AFTER CHRIST
in France the French who sought to obtain their human rights began a revolution to obtain them, It was a long list but they said that they were natural rights,the concept of natural law roman happened to be natural right. -
1800 - 1900 AFTER CHRIST
In 1802, napoleon established the law of 20 may 1802 in which established slavery again for a couple of years because he possessed a lot of them in countries like haiti and panama
In 1799 the french went out of india and the english took completely the control. For a complete century the rights of the indians where completely ignored until mahatma gandhi appear
He also defended vegetarianism and started to accept slaves and people with different religion than hinduism, after that he was killed. -
1945 AFTER CHRIST
After the second world war a lot of countries made a new organization to prevent something like this war happened again and the established a list of human rights all countries must follow and garantize to all his inhabitants.
There are 30 rights for example is the right to live, to be free and equal and the right of democracy. -
1945 AFTER CHRIST
After that the rights of all people en general become to fulfill because of the human rights because of all the organizations and people like gandhi and martin luther king, gandhi defending the rights of indian people and martin luther king of black people.
In the 90 all the human rights organizations flourished with the end of cold war and its respectives blocks and also for the end of apartheid because the win in elections of nelson mandela in south africa in late 90s.