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539 BCE
Babylon's conquest
Ciro the Great, Conquered Babylon
But his next actions were those that marked a significant advance for Man Slave and religion Freedom -
1215
Magna letter
The signing of the Magna letter gave broad rights, at first to the nobility and later to the england's citizens -
Human's Right Petition
The Petition of Law, was initiated by Sir Edward Coke, was based on previous statutes and official documents and enforces four principles: 1. No tax may be collected without Parliament's consent, 2. No subject may be imprisoned without a proven cause (reaffirmation of the right of habeas corpus, of Latin, "that you have the body", right that determined a deadline to resolve if a detainee is arrested), 3. No soldier can be quartered with citizens, and 4. Martial law cannot be used in peacetime. -
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens
the French caused the abolition of an absolute monarchy and created the platform for the establishment of the first French Republic.
proclaims that all citizens must be guaranteed the rights of “freedom of property, security and resistance to oppression”.
" the exercise of the natural rights of each man, has only those limits that assure the other members of the same society the enjoyment of these same rights." -
The first Geneva's convention.
In 1864, sixteen European countries and several countries in the Americas attended a conference in Geneva, at the invitation of the Swiss Federal Council, and at the initiative of the Geneva Commission. The diplomatic conference was held with the purpose of adopting an agreement for the treatment of soldiers wounded in combat. -
United Nations Organization Foundation
In April 1945, delegates from fifty nations met in San Francisco, full of optimism and hope. The goal of the United Nations Conference on International Organization was to create an international body to promote peace and avoid future wars. -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The member countries of the United Nations pledged to work together to promote the 30 Human Rights Articles that, for the first time in history, had been assembled and systematized in a single document.