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1948 BCE
Human Rights Universal Declaration
On December 10, 1948, this milestone in the history of human rights was proclaimed at the UN Assembly in Paris. It is the first time in history that the fundamental human rights that must be protected throughout the world are established. -
1945 BCE
Foundational Charter of the United Nations and coining of the term
On June 26 of that year, the term "human rights" appears in the letter of the United Nations. In the founding letter it appears 7 times throughout the text. -
1915 BCE
Mahatma Gandhi
Until Gandhi begins to spread that all the people of the world have rights, not only in Europe, through their peaceful protests. -
1791 BCE
United States Rights Letter
It was a response to calm the fears of anti-federalist groups, some of them influential opponents of the Constitution, and prominent members of the Philadelphia Convention, who argued that it failed to defend the basic principles of human freedom. These amendments guarantee a series of personal freedoms, limit the power of government in judicial and other proceedings; and some powers are reserved to the states and the people. -
1789 BCE
Man and Citizen Rights Declaration
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, approved by the French National Constituent Assembly on August 26, 1789, is one of the fundamental documents of the French Revolution (1789-1799) in terms of defining personal rights and those of the community, in addition to the universals. Influenced by the doctrine of natural rights, the rights of man are understood as universal. -
1787 BCE
United States Constitution
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was adopted in its original form on September 17, 1787 by the Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and then ratified by the people at conventions in each state in the name of "We the People" (We the People). It has a central place in American law and political culture. The United States Constitution is the oldest federal constitution that is currently in force in the world. -
1628 BCE
Right Petition
It is an important English constitutional document that establishes concrete guarantees for subjects that cannot be violated by anyone, not even by the King. Granted on June 7, 1628, the petition contains restrictions on taxes not established by parliament, forced cantonment of soldiers in private homes, incarceration without cause and restrictions on the use of martial law. -
1215 BCE
Magna Carta
It is a letter granted by John I of England in Runnymede, near Windsor, on June 15, 1215.ii The document promised the protection of ecclesiastical rights, the protection of barons against illegal detention, access to immediate justice and limitations of feudal tariffs in favor of the Crown. -
539 BCE
Ciro The Great
In the year 539 a. C., the armies of Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient Persia, conquered the city of Babylon. But his next actions were those that marked a significant advance for Man. 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 in a clay cylinder cooked in Acadian language with cuneiform writing.
