Episode 62: Where did the idea of human rights come from?

UN. 1948. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. 1789. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp

Declaration of Independence. 1776. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp

Magna Carta. 1215. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/magframe.asp

English Bill of Rights. 1689. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/magframe.asp

Micheline Islay. 2007. The History of Human Rights from Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. 2nd edn.

Lynn Hunt. 2007. Inventing Human Rights: A History.

Daniel J. Whelan. 2010. Indivisible Human Rights: A History.

Andrew Clapham. 2007. Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction.

John Robertson. 2015. The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction.