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Human Rights

  • Cyrus the Great
    539 BCE

    Cyrus the Great

    He conquered the city of Babylon and he salvate the slaves declared that people had the right to choose their own religion, and established racial equality.
  • The Spread of Human Rights
    1212

    The Spread of Human Rights

    From Babylon the idea of human rights spread quicly to India, Greece and eventually Rome.
  • Cyrus Cylinder
    1215

    Cyrus Cylinder

    This ancient rock has now bean recognized as the worlds first charter of human rights.
  • Petition of Right

    Petition of Right

    produced in 1628 by the English Parliament and sent to Charles I as a statement of civil liberties. Refusal by Parliament to finance the king’s unpopular foreign policy had caused his government to exact forced loans
  • EU Independence

    EU Independence

    Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration as a explanation of why congress had voted on July 2 and finally independet from Great Britain en July 4.
  • US Constitution

    US Constitution

    In the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, the Constitution of the US is the fundamental law of the US federal system of government .
  • Declaration of the Rights of the Citizen

    Declaration of the Rights of the Citizen

    In 1789 the people of France brought the abolishment of the absolute monarchy and set the stage for the establishment of the first French Republic
  • First Geneva Convention

    First Geneva Convention

    In 1864, 16 European countries and several American states had a conference in Geneva, on the initiative of the Geneva Committee.