SOME FACTS

The first 10 amendments known as “bills of rights”

Become part of the American constitution on 15 dec 1791 and the rights of people were defined in more detail.

Americans were first to give the “ bill of rights” a constitutional status.

In 1789, the French declaration of the Right of man and of the Citizens, issued by the Constituent Assembly

The real development of contemporary human rights jurisprudence started only during the nineteenth century which continued in the twentieth century which continued in the twentieth centaury

The problem of slavery and slave trade was a notorious practice which had flourished till the beginning of the nineteenth century in almost all parts of world

At the close of the First World War. “ The treaty of piece” of 28 June 1919 between the Allied and associated power and Germany was the most significant and enduring instrument which dealt with a number of political, legal, humanitarian and economic issue.

The international concern for human dignity and rights found expression in the covenant of the League of national. Article 22 of the covenant of league of nation established the “Mandates System.