Human rights in Europe are on the main upheld and defended with few exceptions. The most obvious culprits are Belarus, Russia and Turkey, although the latter has undergone major reforms to improve its human rights record in its attempt to gain European Union membership, including banning the death penalty and giving increased rights to its large Kurdish minority.
History of Human rights in Europe
Pre-1945
The English Bill of Rights, England, (1689).
The Claim of Right, Scotland, (1689).
The Second Treatise of Civil Government by John Locke, (1690).
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, France, (1789).
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, (1790).
The Napoleonic code, France and French conquests under Napoleon, (1804).
Human rights theorie (abolition of servant, new law rules)
1945-1990
Beginning of the Europan Council
Social rights
Human right protected by national laws (Constitutions,...)
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