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no human rights, if you were in the right crowd everything was fine, if not than you were a slave
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he announced all slave they were free.
It was a revolutionary decision during that time.
They were also free to chose their own religion.
Cyrus Cylinder written.
The start of 'human rights'. -
Greece found out about human rights.
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India heard about human rights
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Rome found out about human rights.
They figured at the people automatically followed certain laws called: Natural Law
People in Power didn't like the idea -
A king agreed that no one could over rule the rights of people not even a king
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Human rights were starting to get recognised
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People's rights were safe from people in power. (in the making)
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America was born out of the new rights which was unable to be stopped by the king.
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it took a lot of convincing (including independence from America) before the king started to understand that everyone was created equal.
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The French followed suite to America with their own revolution for their own rights
They had a longer list of rights which they insisted the rights were just made up (they were natural)
Roman concepts of 'natural law' turned into 'natural rights' -
Napoleon did not like the new French democracy so he decided to over throw it.
He wanted to claim the title of Emperor of the world He almost succeeded -
The countries of Europe joined forces
They defeated him
Human rights started up again as a 'hot topic'
Europe drew up international agreements, granting many rights of a broad spectrum across Europe -
War broke out with the killing of half the Jewish population.
90 million people died
Human rights were very close to being eliminated
The world was desperate for change -
Mahatma Gandhi had enough of Europe evading with their massive army and decided that everyone deserved rights not only in Europe
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Marches were being held and European's started to agree with Mahatma Gandhi
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The purpose of the UN was '...To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person,'
Every country had their different ideas of what human rights should be -
She helped to create the rights that were suited to absolutely every human being
This was the birth of 'The Universal Declaration of Human Rights'
Natural rights turned into human rights