Page 1 of 30 §oUniversal Declaration of Human Rights
§l1. §4All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. §4They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of cooperation
Page 2 of 30 §l2. §4Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property.
Page 3 of 30 §l3. §4Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
§0§l4. §4No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Page 4 of 30 §0§l5. §4No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
§0§l6. §4Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Page 5 of 30 §0§l7. §4All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such.
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§0§l8. §4Everyone 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.
Page 7 of 30 §0§l9. §4No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
§0§l10. §4Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, n the determination of their rights
Page 8 of 30 §4and obligations and of any criminal charge against them.
§0§l11. §4Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which they have §4had all the guarantees
Page 9 of 30 §4necessary for their defence.
§0§l12. §4No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with their privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon their honour and reputation. Everyone has the right
Page 10 of 30 §4to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
§0§l13. §4Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
Page 11 of 30 §4Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to return to their country.
§0§l14. §4Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
Page 12 of 30 §0§l15. §4Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their nationality nor denied the right to change their nationality.
Page 13 of 30 §0§l16. §4 Everyone of full age, without any limitation due to race, sex, gender, nationality, or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
Page 14 of 30 §0§l17. §4Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their property.
Page 15 of 30 §0§l18. §4Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change their religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest their religion
Page 16 of 30 §4or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
§0§l19. §4Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
Page 17 of 30 §4information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
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§0§l20. §4Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Page 18 of 30 §0§l21. §4Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
The will of the people shall be the basis
Page 19 of 30 §4of the authority of government;
§4in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Page 20 of 30 §0§l22. §4Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State.
Page 21 of 30 §0§l23. §4Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
Page 22 of 30 §0§l24. §4Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
§0§l25. §4Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of themself
Page 23 of 30 §4and of their family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances
Page 24 of 30 §4beyond their control.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Page 25 of 30 §0§l26. §4Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Page 26 of 30 §0§l27. §4Everyone 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.
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and
Page 27 of 30 §4material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
§0§l28. §4Everyone is entitled to a social and international orderin which the rights and freedoms set forth
Page 28 of 30 §4in this Declaration can be fully realized.
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§0§l29. §4Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of their personality is possible.
Page 29 of 30 §0§l30. §4Nothing 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.
Page 30 of 30 §0§lx. §o§4This copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been edited to reflect that all people, regardless of sex or gender, are covered by the protections herein. § §0§oRefer to "Are Women Human?" by Catharine MacKinnon
