Declaration of human rights
Fabrizio Cavallaro
The evolution of human rights
Declaration of Human rights of man and of the citizen 1789:
This document emerged as a part of the enlightenment movement in France with the intent of changing the continuous violations of the human rights that were happening in that period.
In this paper I'm going to speak about the social context in which the declaration of human rights was written and explain why it was unsuccessful and there was a need to write the "universal declaration of human rights" 140 years after.
The "Declaration of human rights" was written during the enlightenment period.
The enlightenment movement raises from the necessity to change the situation in France during the 13th century where everything was regulated by feudalism and religion and slaves couldn't even think about changing their social position because that was in their mind God's plan for their life.
During this period the landlords had the right to abuse of the wives and children of the people who were working on their lands.
In fact especially women had no rights in comparison to man and were treated like inferior beings.
So during this time there was no respect for the human rights of the weakest people and their ignorance made it even easier for the most powerful ones to take over and abuse of their position.
Religion was playing a big role in this and that's why one of the biggest goals of the enlightenment movement was to reject the old truth and create the possibility to make choices and have a personal/unique relationship with God without the need to follow ambiguous commandments created by humans who wanted to use them to their advantage.
The declaration of man and citizen is written with the goal of supporting and bringing to reality all these principles of the enlightenment movement.
For example John Locke brought the separation between church and state and during this time people started to see themselves as individuals for the very first time, they
The evolution of human rights
Declaration of Human rights of man and of the citizen 1789:
This document emerged as a part of the enlightenment movement in France with the intent of changing the continuous violations of the human rights that were happening in that period.
In this paper I'm going to speak about the social context in which the declaration of human rights was written and explain why it was unsuccessful and there was a need to write the "universal declaration of human rights" 140 years after.
The "Declaration of human rights" was written during the enlightenment period.
The enlightenment movement raises from the necessity to change the situation in France during the 13th century where everything was regulated by feudalism and religion and slaves couldn't even think about changing their social position because that was in their mind God's plan for their life.
During this period the landlords had the right to abuse of the wives and children of the people who were working on their lands.
In fact especially women had no rights in comparison to man and were treated like inferior beings.
So during this time there was no respect for the human rights of the weakest people and their ignorance made it even easier for the most powerful ones to take over and abuse of their position.
Religion was playing a big role in this and that's why one of the biggest goals of the enlightenment movement was to reject the old truth and create the possibility to make choices and have a personal/unique relationship with God without the need to follow ambiguous commandments created by humans who wanted to use them to their advantage.
The declaration of man and citizen is written with the goal of supporting and bringing to reality all these principles of the enlightenment movement.
For example John Locke brought the separation between church and state and during this time people started to see themselves as individuals for the very first time, they