Talk:History of human rights

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This is a spin-out from Human rights, covering the historical antecedents to the modern human rights movement. Phyesalis (talk) 15:11, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)

"LewisNYRB" :
- Lewis (1998)
- {{cite news | last=Lewis | first=Bernard | title=Islamic Revolution |date=January 21, 1998 | publisher=The New York Review of Books | url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/4557}}

DumZiBoT (talk) 12:52, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Opposition

The article too often speaks of human rights as if they were a given, that they were created out of the blue. In fact, this was one of the main reasons human rights had to wait until 1948 to be universally accepted. Before 1948, human rights were ideologically associated with the French revolution and the rights of man, and any social group who had historically opposed the French revolution in any way was suspected of being against human rights. For instance, during the Dreyfus affair, supporters of human rights were said to be pro-Dreyfus, while anti-Dreyfus people were said to be against human rights. It was a very complicated business until the 1948 charter. 69.157.229.153 (talk) 00:54, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]