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Cyrus the great announced that all slaves were free to go and he also said people had the freedom to chose their religion no matter what crowd they were apart of. -
England's king finally agreed that no one can overrule the rights to people not even a king. -
People's rights were finally recognised. -
That all men are created equal. -
the French immediately with their own revolution for their own rights. Their list was even longer and they insisted that these rights weren't just made up, they were natural. The Roman concept of natural law had become natural rights. -
Napoleon decided to overthrow the new French democracy and crown himself emperor of the world. He almost succeeded but the countries of Europe joined forces and defeated. Human rights was again a hot topic. -
In the face of violence, he insisted that all people of earth had rights not just in Europe. -
Hitler exterminated half the Jewish population in horrifying Nazi death camps. A total of 90 million people died. Never had human rights been violated so terrifyingly close to extinction and never the world been more desperate for change.
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Countries of the earth banded together and formed the united nations. Their basic purpose was "To reaffirm faith in the fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person." -
The French concept of natural rights have finally become human rights.