1. Strand 1 Strand 1 Rights and responsibilities
PPT 02: What are human rights and where did they come from?

2. What are human rights?
Human rights are universal.
Human rights are what make us human. They belong to all nations. They are universal, with the power to cross any border or ocean, climb any wall or defence, defy any force or army.
‘Rights are those things that it is fair and just for a person to have or be able to do.’ Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary

3. What happened next?... Where did human rights come from?
Check out the early steps…
Cyrus II
The Magna Carta
The Petition of Right
The American Declaration of Independence
The Geneva Conventions
The Rights of Man and of the Citizen
The US Bill of Rights
What happened next?...

4. Where did human rights come from?
Check out more recent developments…
Women’s Suffrage, 20th century
The United Nations, 1945
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR),
1948
The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1976
The African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, 1986
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), 1990
The European Convention on Human Rights, 2003
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2007
The 20th century was a century for human rights. Why do you think this is so?

6. Three generations of human rights
First generation: LIBERTY Second generation: EQUALITY Third generation: FRATERNITY