Subject(s): Human rights -- Civil Society -- Equality, Liberation and Dignity -- Globalization -- Globalisation -- Early ethical contributions to human right -- Religious and secular notions of universalism -- Liberty, Equality, Justice, Fraternity -- Human rights and the enlightenment: the development of a liberal and secular perspective on human rights -- Ancient civilization to the rise of the wast -- Freedom of religion and opinion -- Right to life, Right to private property , Sate and just-war theory -- human rights and the industrial age: the development of a socialist perspective on human right -- Economic and social right -- Capitalism and state -- World wars: the institutionalization of international rights to self-determinations -- Protest movements -- September 11: security vs human right -- Promoting human rights in the twenty-first century: -- Mediaevalism and the absence of civil society -- Anti-colonial struggle -- Globalization of civil society -- Equality, liberation and dignity