Law GCSE
Human Rights and Freedoms
Universal, indivisible and independent, human rights are what make us human. When we speak of the right to life, or development, or to dissent and diversity, we are speaking about the rights of the people who walk down the street every day. Without the rights and freedoms, we can be certain of none.
Beginnings of today’s rights started in the period of the Roman Empire. Antiquity has significantly contributed to the development of education and raised the level of life of civilisation. In the first century during the major Rome crises was formed Christianity. Then was gradually formed the Church. Inculcation of the human heart and conscience has been presented in those times by Aurelius Augustinius. We can consider those facts as the idea for the birth of human rights and freedoms. However, the actual first written sources become from 1215 known as Magna Carta.
Magna Carta became the basic of English and American law. It forms the fundamental of law of English monarchy. In additional, it established that no one shall be persecuted or arrested without legal appeal. The Act prohibits the king that without the permission of aristocracy, can not declared emergency duty. Magna Carta for the first time in the history limited the power of the monarch towards the subjects. It set the foundation for an individual’s rights development. Traditions of parliamentary debate developed into the concept of balancing the rights and responsibilities of a person, and a society.
The need for recognition of human rights is manifest after the Second World War, after Holocaust, after the Nuremberg Trials, and a statute was accepted by the International Military Tribunal in 1945. Since then it has taken a number of documents, whether already by the United Nations, by the Council of Europe, or at various conferences.
More than fifty years ago Britain helped to enshrine our basic liberties into the European Convection