What is Human rights?
[[File:English_Bill_of_Rights_of_1689.jpg|thumb|''[[Bill of Rights 1689|Bill of Rights]]'' (1689)]] '''Human rights''' are rights and freedoms that all people should have. {{quote|''All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.''|Article 1 of the [[United Nations]] [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] (UDHR)<ref name=UDHR>{{Harvard citation no brackets |UDHR |1948 }}</ref>}} Today, the ideas of human rights are protected as [[legal rights]] in national and [[international law]].<ref>{{Harvard citation no brackets |Nickel |2010 }}</ref> They are seen as ''universal,'' which means they are meant for everyone, no matter what their [[race (sociology)|race]], [[religion]], [[ethnicity]], [[nationality]], [[Ageing|age]], [[sex]], [[politics|political]] beliefs (or any other kind of beliefs), [[intelligence]], [[disability]], [[sexual orientation]], or [[gender identity]] are. Every person has all of these rights, it is not possible to only grant some of them: {{Quote|All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and related. The international community must treat human rights globally in a fair and equal manner, on the same footing, and with the same emphasis.|[[Vienna Declaration|Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action]], [[World Conference on Human Rights]], 1993}} == History == The idea of human rights originated from ideas found in [[religion]] and [[philosophy]] in Western Europe. The modern Western idea of human rights started in the [[Europe]]an [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]]. In the [[16th century]], some people started suggesting that everyone had the religious and political right to choose their [[religion]] and their [[leader]]s. This sort of thinking was important in the [[English Civil War]]. After the war, the [[philosopher]] [[John Locke]] argued that people should have a certain set of [[human]] rights. These ideas were also important in the [[American Revolutionary War|American revolution]] and the [[French revolution]] in the [[18th century]]. In