<P> The history of human rights has not been entirely progressive . Many established rights would be replaced by other less tolerant systems . Stable institutions may be uprooted such as in cases of conflict such as war and terrorism . </P> <P> The earliest conceptualisation of human rights is credited to ideas about natural rights emanating from natural law . </P> <P> The Northeast African civilization of Ancient Egypt supported basic human rights . For example, Pharaoh Bocchoris (725 - 720 BC) promoted individual rights, suppressed imprisonment for debt, and reformed laws relating to the transferral of property . </P> <P> The first recording of human rights were inscribed by Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, into the Cyrus Cylinder . The Cyrus Cylinder is a clay tablet created in 539 B.C. soon after the Achaemenid conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire . It proclaimed all of his subject to be free and banned the practice of slavery . Additionally it stated the freedom to practice one's faith without persecution and forced conversions . </P>

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