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One of the oldest Western philosophies on human rights is that they are a product of a natural law, stemming from different philosophical or religious grounds. Other theories hold that human rights codify moral behavior which is a human social product developed by a process of biological and social evolution (associated with Hume).
The Meanings of Rights: The Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights. Cambridge University Press. pp. 85– 105. ISBN 978-1-107-02785-5. Finlay, Christopher J. (2015). Terrorism and the Right to Resist: A Theory of Just Revolutionary War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-35199-4. Francis, Sahar (2014).
In 1968, she joined Hacettepe University, Ankara, where she founded and chaired the Department of Philosophy until 2005. From 1997 to 2005, Kuçuradi was founding director of the Centre for Research and Application of the Philosophy of Human Rights at Hacettepe University and Director of the M.A. and Ph.D. programmes of human rights.
Some notions of righteousness present in ancient law and religion are sometimes retrospectively included under the term "human rights". While Enlightenment philosophers suggest a secular social contract between the rulers and the ruled, ancient traditions derived similar conclusions from notions of divine law, and, in Hellenistic philosophy, natural law.
The European Convention on Human Rights (1950; Europe) was adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), a follow-up to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, concerns civil and political rights.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human ...
The development of human "rights" is a modern political ideal that began as a philosophical concept promulgated through the philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced Thomas Jefferson , who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into the United States Declaration of ...
Human rights originate in Nature; thus, rights cannot be granted via political charter, because that implies that rights are legally revocable, hence, would be privileges: ... It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect—that of taking rights away.