History of Human Rights презентация

Declaration of Independence, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ,and Bill of Rights, inspired in large part the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Iran established unprecedented principles of human rights in the 6th century BC under Cyrus the Great. After his conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, the king issued the Cyrus cylinder, discovered in 1879 and seen by some today as the first human rights document. The cylinder has been linked by some commentators to the decrees of Cyrus recorded in the Books of Chronicles, Nehemiah, and Ezra, which state that Cyrus allowed (at least some of) the Jews to return to their homeland from their Babylonian Captivity.

Charter of the Liberties") is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

cited by politicians and campaigners, and is held in great respect by the British and American legal communities, Lord Denning describing it as "the greatest constitutional document of all times – the foundation of the freedom of the individual against the arbitrary authority of the despot".

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen), passed by France's National Constituent Assembly in August 1789, is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human and civil rights.

in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere”.