The rudiments of human rights

Abstract

The knowledge of the evolution of human rights is a key to understanding the concept and the factors that influenced the growth and advancement of human rights. The wide spectrum of what we have today as human rights can be traced from the earliest times, down to the middle ages, and up to the present century. Since her inception the United Nations has championed the evolution of human rights to an acceptable contemporary canon of human rights through several human rights instruments and agencies. These instruments have helped to make the generations of human rights applicable globally, as standards to be aspired and attained by all nations. This work is set out to appraise the evolution of human rights through the ages to the present day.