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'''Human rights''' is a [[universalist]] concept of [[legal rights]] and [[ethics]], deriving from the [[Classical liberalism|Liberal]] [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] in Europe and the United States, though it has since spread around the world. [[Egalitarian]] and [[relativist]] in outlook, proponents of the concept usually assert that all [[human being]]s—regardless of cultural, organisational or ethnic associations—should be entitled to certain social, [[Political freedom|political]] and legal rights of [[toleration]].<ref>Houghton Mifflin Company (2006)</ref> The precise nature of what should or should not be regarded as a human right is heatedly debated, thus the concept is somewhat ambigious and open to interpretation.
The intellectual foundations of the concept can be traced back to [[rationalism]] of the Liberal Enlightenment, with figures such as [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[John Locke]], [[Jean-Jacques
{{cquote|All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.|||Article 1 of the [[United Nations]] [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]] (UDHR)<ref>{{cite web|title=Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948|url=http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a1}}</ref>}}
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