HUMAN RIGHTS TIMELINE

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  • 539 BCE

    CYRUS THE GREAT

    In 539 b.C Cyrus the Great (Fist king of Persia) conquered the city of Babylon. He freed the slaved from being abused, he also gave people the right to have their own religion and gave racial equality to all people. This "laws" were embedded in a cylinder known today as the Cyrus Cylinder.
  • 1215

    MAGNA CARTA

    After King John of England violated a number of laws of the country his council forced him to sign the Magna Carta which protected the citizens and every other person. Some of the rights were: The right of the church to be free from governmental interference; The rights of all free citizens to own and inherit property and to be protected from excessive taxes; etc. This rights were later considered as human rights.

  • PETITION OF RIGHTS

    This document sent to Charles I by the parliament was a refusal to support and finance the policy that the king had created that was forcing the people to ask for loans and reduced economy. It focused on: (1) No taxes may be forced without the Parliament knowing, (2) No one may be imprisoned without cause, (3) No soldiers may be quartered upon the citizenry, and (4) Martial law may not be used in time of peace.

  • US DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

    This declaration explained that the 13 colonies from the U.S were no longer part of the British. They focused on 2 main rights: individual rights and the right of revolution. This rights later became widely accepted by the people.
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    US CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS

    This document id the oldest constitution in the world and describes the jurisdiction of the 3 different organs of the US government (1787). The first 10 amendments of the US Constitution are called The Bill of Rights and came into effect on December 15, 1791. Some of the rights were: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to keep and bear arms, the freedom of assembly and the freedom to petition, etc.

  • FRENCH DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN

    This Declaration came after the end of a Total Monarchy in France. The Declaration says that all citizens are to be given the rights of “liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression, etc". This document saw rights as an expression of human will and intender to eliminate all kinds of harmful actions towards humans.

  • THE FISRT GENEVA CONVENTION

    16 countries united in the province of Geneva. The conference was held for the purpose of adopting a convention for the treatment of wounded soldiers in combat. This marked "...to extend care without discrimination to wounded and sick military personnel and respect for and marking of medical personnel transports and equipment with the distinctive sign of the red cross on a white background."

  • THE UNITED NATIONS

    In April 1945, delegates from fifty countries met in San Francisco . The goal of the "United Nations Conference on International Organization" was to create an international entity to create peace and prevent future wars. The priorities of the organization were stated in the proposed charter: “We the peoples of the United Nations are determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.”

  • THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

    It was adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948.
    In and in Article 1, the Declaration says that the inherent rights of all people: “Disregard for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have angered the conscience of man, and the advent of a world in which humans may enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people...All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”

  • INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS

    It was a name given to an UN General Assembly Resolution and two treaties established by the United Nations. It consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (created in 1948), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR, 1966) and its two Optional Protocols and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR, 1966)