All human beings, for the simple reason that they belong to human kind, are entitled to enjoy certain rights from the cradle to the grave. These rights are their birth rights and, therefore, called natural rights. These are the basic entitlements of human beings without which life is not worth living, satisfying, enjoyable and meaningful. The concept of natural rights i.e birth rights is as old as the origin of mankind. But even then these rights could not be enjoyed by all sections of human beings in the primitive age i.e before the rise of the sun of civilization when “survival of the fittest was the order of the day”. It can, therefore, be deduced that in those dark days the concept of Human rights was not born.

 

But in course of time when men started ascending the ladder of civilization step by step it is found that they tried hard to assert their rights, but even then, the struggle for fulfillment of their rights did not succeed. It is a matter of history that in the medieval age the society was distinctly divided in two classes, namely ‘the Haves’ and the ‘Have-nots’ and when there was autocratic form of Government or absolute monarchy with unlimited power where the monarch used to say, “I am the State” human rights were trampled under foot and reduced to dust.

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