2. WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?
● Human rights are rights inherent to all human
beings, whatever our nationality, place of
residence, sex, colour, religion, or any other
status. We are all equally entitled to our
human rights without discrimination.
3. WHO WROTE THE LETTER OF
THE HUMAN RIGHTS?
● The assembly of the letter was entrusted to a
committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt and
composed of members from 18 countries. The
letter was drafted by the Canadian John
Peters Humphrey and then revised by the
French René Cassin.
4. THE ORIGIN OF HUMAN RIGHTS
● The philosophy of human rights began with
the Enlightenment.
● The text of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights of 1948 is inspired by the text
of the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the
Citizen of 1789.
5. THE CYRUS CYLINDER
In 539 BC, the armies of Cyrus the Great, conquered the
city of Babylon but then freed the slaves, and
established the racial equality. These and other decrees
were engraved on a clay cylinder in the Akkadian
language with cuneiform script.
6. MAGNA CARTA
● In 1215, after King John of England violated a
number of ancient laws and traditions with
which England had been ruled, his subjects
forced him to sign the Magna Carta, which
enumerates what later came to be regarded
as human rights.
7. THE PETITION OF THE RIGHT
● Produced in 1628 by the English Parliament
and sent to Charles I as a declaration of civil
liberties.
● The Petition for Law, initiated by Sir Edward
Coke, was based on statutes and official
documents and enforces four principles.
8. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF UE
Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of
independence in which the United States
stopped being a British colony and it collects
all the rights of all American citizens.
9. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICAAND THE BILL OF RIGHTS
Written in the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, the
Constitution of the United States of America. The Bill of
Rights protects freedom of expression, religious freedom,
the right to hold arms, the right to assemble and freedom
of petition.
10. THE UNITED NATIONS
The cities of all Europe at the end of the
Second World War were devastated by the
course of the war, in 1945 many countries
joined together so that this catastrophe would
not happen again.
11. THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN (1789)
In 1789, the people of France caused the abolition of
an absolute monarchy. The Declaration proclaims
that all citizens must be guaranteed the rights of
"freedom of property, security, and resistance to
oppression."
12. INTERNATIONAL LAW ON HUMAN RIGHTS
For 1948, the new United Nations Human Rights
Commission The Commission set out to draft
the document that became the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. Under the
supervision of Eleanor Roosevelt.
13. THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Human rights defenders agree that sixty years after its
publication, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still
more of a dream than a reality.
● They are tortured or abused in at least 81 countries
● They face unfair trials in at least 54 countries
● They are restricted their freedom of expression in at least 77
countries
14. RIGHT TO LIFE (MAIN HUMAN RIGHTS)
● The right to life is the right that is recognized
to any person by the simple fact of being
alive, and that protects him from deprivation
or other serious forms of attack on his life by
other people or institutions, be they
governmental or do not.
15. RIGHT TO EDUCATION (MAIN HUMAN RIGHT)
● The right to education is a recognized human right
and is understood as the right to compulsory free
primary education for all citizens, an obligation to
develop a secondary education accessible to all
children (without racial distinction), as well as
equitable access to higher education, and a
responsibility to provide basic education to
individuals who have not completed primary
education.
16. RIGHT TO EQUALITY MAIN HUMAN RIGHT)
● The right to equality is a human right (fundamental
principle that allows the entire legal system), which
refers to the recognition of the states, the principle
of effective equality1 and non-discrimination of its
population, both in its legal system and in the
creation and application of measures that promote
such equality in their different public policies and
daily actions.
17. RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESION
(MAIN HUMAN RIGHT)
● Freedom of expression is the fundamental right that
people have to say, manifest and disseminate freely
what they think.
● it is a civil and political freedom, relative to the
sphere of public and social life, that characterizes
democratic systems and is essential for the respect
of other rights.