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TIMELINE - Key figures of Human Rights

  • Period: 628 BCE to 551 BCE

    Zarathustra

    He was a mystic from Persia.
    He was the founder of the Zoroastrian faith.
    He believed that the purpose of every human was to promote truth with good words and doing good actions.
  • Period: 600 BCE to 529 BCE

    Cyrus the Elder

    He was born in Persia.
    He was a king, and he promised not to force people and give freedom to all.
  • Period: 1340 to 1381

    John Ball

    He was a priest.
    He was born in England, and he lives in the fourteen century.
    He fights for the equality between rich and poor, he thinks that God had created everyone as equals.
    "They have fine houses, and we have to brave the wind and rain as we toil in the fields".
    He was executed in 1381.
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    He was born in Switzerland.
    He worked as a philosopher.
    He argued with governments to share power.
  • Period: to

    Jean-Henri Durant

    He was a humanitarian businessman from Switzerland.
    He created the Red Cross to care for the sick and homeless in wartime.
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    Eleanor Roosvelt

    She was born in the USA.
    She was an advocate for civil rights, and she worked to improve the position of working women.
    She was helping to write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.