2.1 The nature and development of human rights

Definition breakdown:

Human → applying to every person.

Rights → moral or legal entitlements that a person is allowed to have.

what does this mean? Human rights are universal and inalienable → they are inherent and cannot be taken away.

Developing recognition of human rights.

• there were no rights that applied to everyone before Cyrus

• Romans believed ideas of natural laws → natural justice

• 1215 Magna Carta binds the king and can’t take rights away.

• 1689 British bill of rights

• French revolution → natural rights of the man and the civilian

• 1915 Ghandi pushing that everybody has rights.

• 1945 post ww2 united nations was formed.

• universal declaration of human rights