Hallo! Ich muss ein Referat über the history of human rights am Montag abgeben. Mein Lehrer meinte ich soll jemanden zum korrigieren suchen bevor ich es abgebe. Da ich niemanden kenne der gut genug Englisch spricht bzw. lernt, frage ich hier mal. Ich danke euch schonmal für diesen Zeitaufwand 
LG
Human rights education is much more than a lesson at school or a topic for a day; it is a process to equip people with the tools they need to live their lives in safety and dignity.
Nelson Mandela once said, “to deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity”. Do you understand this? „to challenge their very humanity“, this means to treat human beings, just like you and me, as inferior. To abuse them, to treat them as if they were dirt.
My name is Katja Kvasny and today I will tell you something interesting about human rights. First of all you will hear the history of human rights, afterwards I will present you something about human rights themselves, then I will talk about human rights in Austria, the European Union and the USA and finally you will hear something about human rights violations and how human rights are protected.
So, the history of human rights begins 539 before Christ. At this time Cyrus, the first king of Persia, freed the slaves of Babylon. His actions marked a major advance. From Babylon, the idea of human rights spread quickly to India, Greece and eventually Rome.
Then the Magna Carta, signed by the King of England in 1215, was a turning point in human rights. Among the Magna Carta were the rights of all free citizens to own property and to be protected from excessive taxes. As one of the most important legal documents in the development of modern democracy, the Magna Carta was an essential point in the effort to establish freedom.
The next recorded milestone in the development of human rights was the Petition of Right, produced in 1628 by the English Parliament as a statement of civil liberties.
In 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote the American Declaration of Independence, which the United States Congress approved. It was published as a printed leaflet that was widely distributed and read to the public.
Written during the summer of 1787, the Constitution of the United States of America was the fundamental law of the US federal system of government.
In 1789 the people of France set the stage for the establishment of the first French Republic. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was the first step toward writing a constitution for the Republic of France.
In 1945 fifty nations met and formed the United Nations to protect and promote peace and prevent future wars.
By 1948, the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission had captured the world’s attention. It set out to draft the document that became the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. In consequence, many of these rights are today part of the constitutional laws of democratic nations.
The Declaration consists of thirty articles. To read all of them to you would take too long, so I chose five of them which I will now read to you.
The first one says “Everyone is free and we should all be treated in the same way.” Another one says “Everyone has the right to live and to live in freedom and safety.” A further is “Everyone has the right to own property and possessions.” And the last two say “Everyone has the right to marry and have a family.” and “Everyone should be considered innocent until guilt is proved.” The other 25 articles are published by the United Nations on its website.