ABSTRACT
During the democracy movement, human rights resurfaced as a powerful slogan and idea. Democracy in its original sense means letting people is masters of their own affair. More people today are discussing the issue of human rights than that of equality. We can practically say that the two are inseparable, because without equality human rights loses its real significance, and without human rights, equality is an empty expression. Human rights are an ancient concept. It was revived during the European Renaissance under the influence of more explicit humanist thinking. People reflected on human rights as a social issue, and early socialist trends of thought and socialist movements developed, based on the common desire to build a society that acknowledged equal human rights for all. Equal human rights are humankind's individual and concrete rights to live, and they are premised upon some particular social preconditions. All social systems which acknowledge that everyone has an equal right to exist are democratic systems.
