Historia de los Derechos Humanos / Documental

Human rights are those rights guaranteed simply by virtue of being human. They are inherent to all human beings without distinction of any kind, such as nationality, place of residence, gender, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, language, or any other status. Their effective realization is indispensable for the integral development of any person. [Music]

Human rights were born when, in 539 BC, the armies of Cyrus the Great, the first king of ancient times, conquered the city of Babylon. Cyrus the Great freed the slaves, declared that all people had the right to choose their own religion, and established racial equality. These and other decrees were inscribed on a baked clay cylinder in

Akkadian cuneiform script, known today as the Cyrus Cylinder. This ancient document has been recognized as the first human rights document in the world. It has been translated into the six official languages ​​of the United Nations, and its provisions are analogous to the first four articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Based on the decrees of

Indian civilizations, as well as those of Greece and Rome, the concept of natural law was expanded, and society followed suit. Moving forward to another key moment in the history of human rights, the Magna Carta in 1215, after King John of England violated a number of ancient laws and traditions by which England had been governed, his subjects

forced him to sign the Magna Carta, which enumerated what later came to be considered human rights. Among these were the right of the Church to be free from government interference, the rights of all free citizens to own and inherit property and to be protected from excessive taxation, the right of widows who owned