30 Articles of UN DECLARATION of Human Rights

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30 Articles of UN DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this
Declaration, without distinction of any kind.
3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.
4. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade
shall be prohibited in all their forms.
5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading
treatment or punishment.
6. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the
law.
7. All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination
to equal protection of the law.
8. Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national
tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the
constitution or by law.
9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.
10. Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an
independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights
and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
11. (Article 11) Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be
presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial
at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense.
12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy,
family, home, or correspondence.
13. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within
the borders of each state.
14. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum
from persecution.
15. Everyone has the right to a nationality.
16. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race,
nationality, or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family.
17. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association
with others.
18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.
19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
20. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
21. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country,
directly or through freely chosen representatives.
22. Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is
entitled to realization, through national effort and international
cooperation, of the economic, social, and cultural rights indispensable
for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
23. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just
and favorable conditions of work, and to protection against
unemployment.
24. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable
limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
25. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health
and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing,
housing, and medical care and necessary social services.
26. Everyone has the right to education.
27. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy the arts, and to share in scientific advancement and
its benefits.
28. Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the
rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
29. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full
development of his personality is possible.
30. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any state,
group, or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any
act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth
herein.

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