Contemporary History and Human Rights
Introduction
At the beginning of history there were no human rights, around the year 3000 A of C. In ancient Egypt, everything was based on matters of survival and knowing how ; In 539 A de C. With Ciro el Grande and the conquest of Babylon.
This decided to change this way of life completely, announcing that all slaves could be released and in matters of religion, the residents of Babylon could freely choose their religion, recording those words in a clay table, known as the cylinder of Ciro and At this time human rights were born.
Developing
This idea expanded around the world, by Greece in the year 479 s of C. With democracy in Athens, in India in the year 272 s of C. with the edicts of Ashoka and in the end until Rome in the year 27 A of C. In the Roman Empire, at this time they realized that people naturally followed certain laws, even if they were not told to follow them, this was called natural law, however this was not respected by those in power.
A thousand years later in 1.215 d. of c. With the Magna Carta in England, they achieved that the king agreed that no one could invalidate the rights of people, not even the same king, for this in 1.628 d. of c. The rights request document was created and thus they were safe from those in power, to some extent.
In 1.776 The declaration of independence of America was established, with a group of British rebels so that the king would complete America.
A young lawyer from India decided that it had already been enough, it was called Mahatma Gandhi, in 1.915 through protests in India, in the face of violence he insisted that everyone on earth had rights, not only in Europe, in 1.931 a pact was created in which the Europeans agreed, but it was not going to be so simple, two world wars had been generated, Hitler had exterminated half of the Jewish population of the Earth, in total 90 million people had dead.
At this time, human rights were being lost and the great advance it had in time, so that countries joined a necessary change and formed the United Nations in 1.945, being its purpose "to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights in the dignity and value of the human person". In 1.946 Under the supervision of Eleanor Roosevelt, they agreed on a series of rights for everyone, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1.948, the French concept had become human rights.
conclusion
The French created their own revolution for their own rights, insisting that they were natural rights, arising in 1.789 The French Revolution, but in France a general named Napoleon did not agree with this and decided to overthrow the new French democracy crowning himself as an emperor of the world in 1.800 and almost succeeded, but the countries of Europe joined and defeated him; International agreements began to be drafted widely guaranteeing many rights throughout Europe, but only through Europe, the rest of the world in the meantime was invaded, conquered and consumed by European empires.
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