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# 2.4 Summary of Part A

Part A explored the development of humanitarian and human rights law. The development of new democracies with written constitutions laid the framework for the general recognition of rights such as freedom of speech. General principles emerged:

- certain rights exist because a human being is entitled to ‘humanity’;

- those rights cannot be denied or taken away;

- recognition of the rule of law.

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