

Additional rights have been added to this list of “inalienable rights” now known as human rights. As each century has passed, these rights have evolved and changed and so has the feminist movement. These rights reflect that all human beings are born equal, in the sense that each individual is of equal moral worth. They are the right to life, liberty and property. He states that man is born with natural rights that cannot be taken away.

These rights were essentially conceived and devised by John Locke, a 17th century philosopher and the founding father of liberalism.

The women’s liberation movement was initiated by non-Muslim, secular, liberal women who believed that women should have ‘equal rights’ as men.
