History of Human Rights (ePub)

As belief in the righteousness of the human life related to the
ancient precedents in several religions across the world, the
concept of the human rights in modernized terms had begun
during the time of Renaissance humanism at the time of the
early period of modern life. The wars of Europe for religion
along with the civil wars during the 17
th century in England
had given rise to the philosophy of human rights, freedom, and
liberalism. These also led to the potential belief in the human
rights that gradually become the focus of the intellectual culture
in the entire Europe during the time of the 18
th century at
the Age of Enlightenment. Such ideas and concepts of the
human rights at been lying at the core of the French as well
as the American revolutions. These revolutions had occurred at
the time of the end of the particular century. The democratic
evolution across the period of the 19th century had paved the
path for the introduction of the universal suffrage at the time
of the 20th century. The two wars of the worlds had also led
to the establishment of the UDHR (Universal Declaration of
Human Rights).
The era of the post-war conditions had witnessed several
movements with respect to the drafting of human rights across
the groups of special interests like that of feminism along with
the civil rights of the group of African-Americans. The members
of the human rights belonging to the Soviet bloc had emerged
during the time of the 1970s. This came up along with the
rights of the workers in the west. This movement had quickly
coordinated because political rhetoric and social activism across
several nations had put the same in high spirits on the agenda
of the world. By the time of the 21st century, Moyn has put
up arguments that the movements associated with human
rights had expanded beyond the original notions of
anti-totalitarianism for including various causes like that of the
social, economic development and humanitarianism across the
developing nations.
Some parts of the righteousness that were present in ancient
religion and law has been retrospectively been sometimes
included under the common term of human rights. While
several Enlightenment historians and scholars have suggested a
secular as well as a social contract among those who rule and
ruled along with the ancient traditions that have been derived
from same kinds of conclusions from the concepts of divine law
as well as through Hellenistic philosophy and natural law.
Human rights can be considered to be an idea about whose
time is yet to come. The UDHR (Universal Declaration of
Human Rights) can be considered to be a call to human
freedom as well as justice to the global people.