 The least controversial family of human rights is civil and political rights. These rights are familiar from historic bills of rights such as the  French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen  (1789) and the  U.S. Bill of Rights  (1791, with subsequent amendments). Contemporary sources include the first 21 Articles of the  Universal Declaration,  and treaties such as the  European Convention,  the  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,  the  American Convention on Human Rights,  and the  African Charter on Human and People’s Rights.  Some representative formulations follow: 