Rights Theory

Prepared for: Richard Escoe

Prepared by:Ahmed AlzaabiWaleed Al yafiea

Index

•Introduction•Background•Rights•Relation•Conclusion

What is ethics?

Rights Theory

Background

•Cyrus the Great, the first king of Persia, freed the slaves of Babylon, 539 B.C.

•“all people had the right to choose their own religion, and established racial equality”

Background

•The Magna Carta (1215)

King John of England

Background

•Petition of Right (1628)

Charles I

Background

•United States Declaration of Independence (1776)

Thomas Jefferson

Background

•The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Rights

•Natural Law

•Natural Rights

•Human Rights

What are human rights?

“Men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”

The French Declaration of the Rights of

Man and of the Citizen, France, August

26, 1789.

Who has human rights? Me? You? Citizens? Non-citizens? Criminals? Minority groups? Companies?

•Human rights belong to all human beings by virtue of them being human

Human rights

•UNIVERSAL

• INALIENABLE

• INDIVISIBLE and INTERDEPENDENT

Types of human rights

1. Absolute rights

2. Limited rights. 

3. Qualified rights

Two Concept Of Rights

•Negative Rights: Rights to Noninterference

Two Concept Of Rights

•Positive Rights: Rights to Well-Being

Property rights

Women Rights

•"Nothing could delight me more than to see the woman taking up her distinctive position in society ... “

Working In Ramadan

Animal Rights•Dog

How are Rights Theory and Law related?

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Conclusion