Abstract
The rise of Protestantism in Europe came as a wake-up call to both the church and the State for the conception of human dignity as a necessity for the protection of human rights as an inalienable right given by God in the holy Bible. Early human rights in Europe were influenced by Calvinist reformation in sixteenth century with its influence spreading across Geneva to other places like: France, England, Germany and Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic and Slovakia).
In general, the impact of the early Protestant movement in Europe propelled the continent into a society of freedom and human liberty with its Christian ideas of tolerance and love spreading across the region. The views of the United States of America became the leading ideology in establishing the western legal system in the eighteenth century as well as the formulation of the United Nations (UN) Declaration of Universal Human Rights after the World War in 1948.