Human rights are inherent to all humans regardless of attributes and are indivisible. Key documents in human rights history include the Cyrus Cylinder establishing early charter of rights, the Bill of Rights of 1689, the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. Major conventions have addressed discrimination, racial discrimination, disabilities, children's rights, torture, and migrant workers. The UN Human Rights Council replaced the Commission on Human Rights in 2006 with 47 member states elected for maximum 6-year terms. Famous human rights defenders include Abraham Lincoln who abolished slavery, Mahatma Gandhi who advocated non-violence and equality, and Nelson Mandela who fought apartheid and

1. Humanrights arerights inherent toallhumanbeings, whateverournationality,placeofresidence, sex,
nationalorethnicorigin, color,religion, language, oranyotherstatus.Weareall equallyentitled to
ourhumanrights withoutdiscrimination.Theserights areall interrelated,interdependentand
indivisible.

2. Cyrus cylinder
TheCyrusCylinder, createdby king CyrustheGreat, is sometimes arguedto be theworld's first charter
of humanrights.

3. The Bill of Rights (1688 or 1689)
December 16, 1689
Location Parliamentary Archives
Author(s) Parliament of England
Purpose Assert certain rights

4. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the
Citizen approved by the National Assembly of
France, August 26, 1789.
human rights became a central concern over the
issue of slavery

5. Eleanor Roosevelt with the Spanish version of
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Created 1948
Ratified 16 December 1948
Location Palais de Chaillot, Paris
Author(s) Draft Committee[a]
Purpose Human rights

6. 
Human rightsday
 Human Rights Day is held on 10 December every year, the date the United
Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
 This is human rights logo
 Human rights divided into 3 types
1. Civil rights
2. Political rights
3. Cultural and educational rights

7. 
 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (adopted
1979, entry into force: 1981)
 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination (CERD) (adopted 1966, entry into
force: 1969)
 Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD) (adopted 2006, entry into force:
2008)
organisations

8. 
 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
(adopted 1989, entry into force: 1989)
 United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT)
(adopted 1984, entry into force: 1987)
 International Convention on the Protection of the
Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their
Families (ICRMW or more often MWC) (adopted
1990, entry into force: 2003)
organisation

9. 
 created at the 2005 World Summit to replace the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
 Forty-seven of the one hundred ninety-one member
states sit on the council, elected by simple majority in
a secret ballot of the United Nations General .
 Members serve a maximum of six years and may
have their membership suspended for gross human
rights abuses.
United nations human
rights council

10. Abraham Lincoln
President of US during the
American civil war. Lincoln made
the famous Emancipation
Proclamation (1863) – declaring
“that all persons held as slaves”
within the rebellious states “are, and
henceforward shall be free.” – This
proclamation was followed by the
13th Amendment to the US
Constitution (1865) outlawing
slavery.

11. Mahatma Gandhi
Indian nationalist and politician.
Struggled for Indian self-
determination and independence.
Gandhi inspired millions through
his non-violent protests. Gandhi
also sought to improve rights of
women and outcasts in Indian
society.

12. Nelson Mandela
Anti-apartheid leader. Mandela, spent
over twenty years in jail for his
opposition to the racist apartheid
system which excluded blacks from
many areas of society. He was elected
the first President of democratic
South Africa in 1994. – “I have
cherished the ideal of a democratic
and free society in which all persons
live together in harmony and with
equal opportunities.” – Nelson
Mandela.

13. Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese opposition leader.
Awarded Nobel peace prize for
opposition to military rule. Aung
San Suu Kyi was placed under
house arrest for many years due to
her opposition.

14. Benazir Bhutto
First female President of Pakistan.
Helped to move country from
military dictatorship to democracy
in 1988.

15. Malala Yousafzai
Pakistani schoolgirl who defied
threats of the Taliban to campaign
for the right to education. She
survived being shot in the head by
the Taliban and has become a
global advocate for human rights,
women’s rights and the right to
education. She has sought to
emphasis the peaceful nature of
Islam and the respect Islam has for
education.

16. Kailash Satyarthi
for the struggle against the
suppression of children and young
people and for the right of all
children to education.

17. Ellen Johnson-
Sirleaf, Tawakkol
Karman, Leymah
Gbowee
"for their non-violent struggle for
the safety of women and for
women's rights to full participation
in peace-building work"

18. THANK YOU
This are some people who rose and fought for the rights . Right s are basic things given to the
human which cannot be changed by race , sex , color ,caste
THANKING YOU