When human rights began

In the year 1948 human rights began in the world, just after World War II. Legislation on life has changed over the centuries, and during these changes different institutions have legislated on it. In this lesson from a TEACHER we will talk about when did human rights begin, a very important element in our days, as it is the only element that protects our dignity, against abusive systems that may try to attack us.

Index

1. What are human rights?
2. The beginning of Human Rights
3. What are the most important contents within this text?

We begin the lesson by defining the concept of Human Rights:

Human Rights is the recognition of the dignity of human beings, something that makes it impossible to discriminate against anyone or make any distinction. These rights remain collected in a legal text to which you can go as long as you sense that there may be some element that goes against human dignity.

We therefore turn to the fundamental part of the lesson of when human rights began. In this part we have to go back to the

But when were they put in writing? That is the fundamental question. For this we have to wait until the year 1948 moment in which the text itself appears, which was based on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of the year 1789. This text had to be after the end of World War II since in this conflict there were many human beings who suffered enormously the atrocities of the war, since there were many crimes against humanity that the Nazis carried out throughout these years.

Thus, Eleanor Roosvelt He was the precursor to the drafting of the letter that was entrusted to John Peters Humphrey and agreed by 18 countries. After being drafted, the December 10, 1948, was put to a vote in the United Nations General Assembly, where all 56 members unanimously accepted this, although the Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia and South Africa abstained.

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With the creation of human rights, one of the most important points to be safeguarded was motherhood and childhood, since these two elements are considered the fundamental nucleus of society.

For this reason, in the year 1959, the Rightschildren's fundamentals (which is attached to the text of human rights), since, within society, they are considered the weakest link and, therefore, in this way they wanted to protect their security.

After this, we will mention the most essential points, related to freedom, since it is the fundamental element of society:

• Every human being is born and remains free, therefore, there should be no social distinctions.
• The sovereignty of a country resides in the people, therefore, you cannot go against them.
• Freedom is not doing everything that does not harm another person.
• No one can go against the political and religious ideas of another person, since freedom of expression belongs to everyone.
• The law can only establish strict penalties, but always maintaining a minimum towards the person.
• Every man is innocent until proven otherwise.
• Property is an inviolable right that no one can take away, if it has to be expropriated, it must be compensated.

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