The rights of man are faculties of the human being derived from his status. Exercised over other individuals, social groups in between, to society as a whole and against the State. They included the rights to life, physical integrity, property, to petition the public authorities, to education, to freely exercise their religion and express themselves through the press and other media. The rights of individuals imply the duty of others to respect them. Similarly, a person's rights end where others begin to. These powers are typically included in the laws.
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was enacted in 1789, in France, and was the basis of successive French constitutions and other countries.
During the twentieth century expanded the list of human rights. It began to call them human rights and listed by the UN in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.