Right - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:38:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Right - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Universal Declaration of Human Rights https://historylab.es/universal-declaration-of-human-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=universal-declaration-of-human-rights Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/universal-declaration-of-human-rights/ It is a milestone document in the history of human rights.

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]]> Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles).

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]]> The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen https://historylab.es/the-declaration-of-the-rights-of-man-and-of-the-citizen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-declaration-of-the-rights-of-man-and-of-the-citizen Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/the-declaration-of-the-rights-of-man-and-of-the-citizen/ Inspired by the American Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the spirit of the Enlightenment, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 marked the beginning of a new political era. Since then, it has never ceased to be a reference text.

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]]> In its preamble and its 17 articles, it sets out the “natural and inalienable” rights, which are freedom, ownership, security, resistance to oppression; it recognizes equality before the law and the justice system, and affirms the principle of separation of powers. While the text was subsequently flouted by many revolutionaries, and followed by two other declarations of the rights of man in 1793 and 1795, the text of 26 August 1789 was the one to survive, and inspired similar texts in several European and Latin American countries throughout the 19th century; it is on this one that the French constitutions of 1852, 1946 and 1958 were founded. The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, signed in Paris on 10 December 1948, just like the European Convention on Human Rights, signed in Rome on 4 November 1950, have the same origins.

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]]> Declaration of the Rights of the Child https://historylab.es/declaration-of-the-rights-of-the-child/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=declaration-of-the-rights-of-the-child Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:06 +0000 https://historylab.es/declaration-of-the-rights-of-the-child/ In 1959, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. It marked the first major international consensus on the fundamental principles of children’s rights.

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]]> In 1924, the League of Nations (LON) adopted the Geneva Declaration, a historic document that recognised and affirmed for the first time the existence of rights specific to children and the responsibility of adults towards children. The United Nations (UN) was founded after World War II. It took over the Geneva Declaration in 1946. However, following the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the advancement of rights revealed the shortcomings of the Geneva Declaration, which therefore had to be expanded. They thus chose to draft a second Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which again addressed the notion that “mankind owes to the Child the best that it has to give”. On 20 November 1959, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted unanimously by all 78 Member States of the United Nations General Assembly.

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