Human rights - An introduction

Who freed all the slaves and started the history of human rights?

• Alexander the Great

• Cyrus the Great

• Serses

• Hamurrabi

What are human rights?

• the rights all human beings have

• the rights which are given to someone at his/her birth

• the rights which apply everywhere in the world and in all times

• all the answers are correct

Who was the first to talk about equality?

• Confucius

• Jesus Christ

• Jacob

• Buddha

How can you define human rights if you believe they must be granted

• positive rights

• innatural rights

• supernatural rights

• natural rights

Who tried to demonstrate logically the existence of natural law and therefore of natural rights

• John Locke

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Samuel Pufendorf

• Hugo Grotius

Which were the first three natural rights, according to Grotius

• life, religion and education

• life, liberty and property

• life, religion and liberty

• life, property and rebellion

Which was the first ancient "Constitution"

• Magna Carta Libertatum

• Bill of rights

• Petition of rights

• Universal Declaration of Human rights

When was Magna Carta granted?

• 1628

• 1689

• 1215

• 1492

Which right did Americans add to life, liberty and property in the Declaration of Independence?

• pursuit of happiness

• rebellion

• religion

• self defense

Who chaired the Committee which drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

• Mahatma Gandhi

• Martin Luther King

• Jacqueline Kennedy

• Eleonor Roosevelt