Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Human Rights - Coggle Diagram

- - - - She stated the denial of basic human rights; poor education; financial dependence for women.
        She considered marriage as a "social prostitution" and claimed that both women and men were corrupted by the roles imposed by society
  - - - She stated the importance of education; she denounced the obligation to hide intellectual pursuits
      - It was only in 1880 that women achieved the right to obtained degrees at the University of London
      - The campaign for women's suffrage began in 1866 and grew in strehgnt after parliamentary reform in 1867 to give some th right to vote
      - In 1897 The National Union of Women's Suffrage brought together disparate groups under the leadership by Millicent Fawcett, who made the movement stronger
        
        Aims: obtain the vote through non violent protest and by lobbing Members of Parliament.
        
        Frustration at the failure to get the legislation to pass brought in women of all classes and led to a split in the National Union of Women's Suffrage
  - - - A woman needs a space and financial independence if she wants to be creative
  - - - women were considered to be weaker sex, physically and intellectually, and to be ruled by me.
  - - - it made people realize women were not the weaker sex and represented an important step forward in the struggle for equality
        
        Brittain's Testament of Youth
        
        the crucial role of some in WWI; the longer term effects of the war for women and on individual
        
        after 1918 she became committed to the peace movement, writing feminist and pacifist articles
- - - - Magna Carta (1215) - one of the first legal instruments in the UK covering human rights issue
        
        it called for a guarantee of protection to all free men from illegal imprisonment and seizure of property ; it asked for swift justice and scuttle limitations
    - - The idea of Natural Law became fundamental in the later philosophical development of human rights thinking
    - - In the 17th century prose became one of the most
        
        Locke is rgarded as the seminal figure of the development of human rights thinking
        
        Locke is also important for his defence of the right of revolution
        
        Lokean ideas were considered the inspiration force of the American Declaration of Independence and were reflected in the Declaration in its claim that all men are created equal, so they have the same right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
        
        Locke died in 1704 but his ideas remained a powerful political doctrine. His ideas were seen as a kind of Magna Carta, especially in the United States, where conflict between the British Parliament in 1770 gave his thinking an importance it had lost in England. This is why Locke is seen as the inspiration force of the American Declaration of Independence
        
        The Two Treatises of Government acquired great importance in the USA and deeply influenced the American Revolution, as the Americans saw the English rule as a tyranny that violated their rights.
        
        in Two Treatises of Government (published anonymously in 1690) Locke argued that:
        men have natural innate rights, such as the right to life, liberty and property, which are by their nature independent of the laws of any particular society
        Men are naturally free and equal and invested with natural rights in a state of nature where they live free from outside rule
        People then exchange some of their natural rights to enter into society with other people and transfer some of their rights to the government to guarantee the enjoyment of their lives, liberty and property, to be protected by common laws and a common executive power to enforce the laws
        Governments exist by the consent of the people in order to protect their rights and promote the public good
        Political government is the result of a “social contract” where people transfer some of their rights to the government
        Government were given their authority by popular consent, regarded as a contract
        Government, which fail to protect the people’s right and promote the public good can legitimately be opposed and replaced
        
        Hobbes - Leviathan: a deeply pessimistic work of political philosophy, an accurate defense of the theory of absolutism
        
        In Leviathan Hobbes affirmed that men are naturally selfish units, seeking self-preservation
        -they are constantly at war against all other members of society;
        -the only solution to avoid social conflicts and civil wars is to establish a social contract through which men should give obedience to a absolute monarch.
      - In England the Petition of Rights (1628) and the Bill of Rights (1689) restated the main principles of Magna Carta
    - - Thomas Paine developed his ideas of universal human rights holding that all men had the rights because of their status as human beings, and the individual owed nothing to the society
        
        the rights derive from the divine creation and they didn't come from history or legislation
    - - the Human Rights movement saw tree waves of activism
        
        1948 - The Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights