Ancient peoples did not think of universal human rights in the same way we do today. The true forerunner of human-rights discourse was the concept of natural rights which appeared as part of the medieval natural lawtradition

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The United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is the only multilateral governmental agency with universally accepted international jurisdictionfor

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Human Rights Council
The UN Human Rights Council, created in 2005, has a mandate to investigate alleged human rights violations. 47 of the 193 UN member states sit on the

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Several theoretical approaches have been advanced to explain how and why human rights become part of social expectations.
One of the oldest Western philosophies on human rights is that they

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Indivisibility and categorization of rights
The most common categorization of human rights is to split them into civil and political rights, and economic, social and cultural rights.

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Human rights vs national security
With the exception of non-derogable human rights (international conventions class the right to life, the right to be free from slavery, the right to be free from torture and the right to be free from retroactive application of

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There are many regional agreements and organizations promoting and governing human rights.
Africa

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