Human rights all around the world have been violated for centuries and longer. The concept of human rights has existed long before the holocaust, apartheid or even slavery. During the time of King John of England, the Magna Carta was signed. After the king violated a number of ancient laws and customs, he was forced to sign the Magna Carta which outlined what later came to be thought of as human rights. The 'natural philosophers' later furthered the idea with the concept of 'natural rights', which stated that all men had rights because they were human beings, not because of his citizenship…
