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The concept of Human Rights start spreading to other parts of the world, including Greece, India and Rome.
And Human Rights where born!
Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon and says that all slaves are free to go. He also said that the people had the freedom to choose their religion, no matter what crowd they were apart of. They documented his words on a tablet known as the Cyrus cylinder
The rest of the world still didn't adopt Europe's list of rights. Instead they got conquered and invaded by Europe's massive Empires.
Two world wars erupted, killing over 90 million people. Human rights were very close too extinction. Never had the world been so desperate for change
Germany invades Poland thus beginning the Second World War. During World War II, six million European Jews are exterminated by Hitler's Nazi regime. Millions of other civilians (gypsies, communists, Soviet POWs, Poles, Ukrainians, people with disabilities, unionists, ‘habitual' criminals, socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Free Masons, vagrants and beggars) are forced into concentration camps, subjected to ‘medical' experiments, starved, brutalised and murdered.
and the journey of rights finally become...
British petition of rights is adopted, recognizing peoples rights.
British Bill of Rights is made, which ensures that Royalty can not override laws created by a freely-elected Parliament; John Locke sets forth the notion of natural rights of life, liberty and property.
The countries of Europe joined forces and defeat Napoleon. International concern for human rights is demonstrated for first time in modern history. Freedom of religion is proclaimed, civil and political rights discussed and slave trade is condemned. Europe draw up their own list of rights.
Napoleon invades Europe and overthrows the French Democracy, crowning himself Emperor of the World.
Abraham Lincoln announces that slavery is abolished in America. Great Britain had already done this in 1833.
The French immediately followed with their own revolution for their rights. The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is created.
NATURAL RIGHTS
British rebels declare their independence. The US Declaration of Independence proclaims that 'all men are created equal' and endowed with certain inalienable rights.
America is born.
This becomes known as...
The Romans found that people naturally followed certain laws even if they weren't told too.
NATURAL LAW
Gandhi-Irwin pact. Eventually Europeans started to agree, that not just Europeans had rights.
Mahatma Gandhi leads protests in India. In the face of violence he insisted all humans of Earth have rights, not just people in Europe.
The Commonwealth of Australia is established. Because a Bill of Rights is not part of the Australian Constitution, protection of human rights is left to state and federal parliaments, not the courts. The White Australia Policy is established.
When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were signed it did not have the force of law. It was optional, its still little more than words on a paper... It is up to us to uphold these rights!
1893
Women in New Zealand are given the right to vote - The first country in the world to do so.