“The history of freedom begins from the moment when man succeeded in codifying it, not from the point at which he thought of freedom.”
Freedom in its broad sense includes political, individual, and personal freedoms,
and civil rights, which are freedoms that many societies are still deprived of enjoying.
The book discusses how the principles of freedom have moved from being mere principles to binding laws and charters. It also discusses the reality of the dispute between those who believe that these principles and rights were known to Arab peoples before other peoples, and those who believe that these principles conflict with Islamic law, and the other trend that believes that we should draw inspiration from these rights for what is consistent with our nature, and ignore what is not consistent with us. About these freedoms and the struggle for them, the Cairo Center for Human Rights Studies has published a book entitled “A Brief History of Freedom… The Story of the Birth of Human and Citizen Rights” by the writer “Mohamed Younis” as part of the educational series issued by the center.
The book, which consists of eight chapters, reviews the most prominent international charters, declarations and treaties related to freedoms in England, France and America, up to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The book also discusses in the appendices section the most important texts of laws and charters related to freedoms, including the English Charter of Freedoms 1215, the Petition of Rights 1628, the English Declaration of Rights and its American counterpart, as well as the American Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. The book also discusses in detail the Universal Declaration of Human Rights issued in 1948.
