Freedom, justice and peace are founded on the inborn dignity and equal rights of all human beings, protected by the rule of law.
Article I. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They have reason and conscience to act to each other as brothers and sisters.
2. These rights and freedoms are for everyone, no matter what race, colour, sex, language, religion, opinions, origins, wealth or birth, and in all countries.
3. All have the right to life, liberty and personal safety.
4. No slavery in any form.
5. No torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
6-8. Everyone is equal before the law, to have the equal protection of the law to maintain their basic rights.
9 No arrest, detention or exile without just cause and public knowledge.
10 Fair and public trials.
11. The right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty. No-one can be held guilty of a penal offence that was not an offence at the time, or given a heavier punishment than what was legal at the time.
12. The right to the protection of the law against all arbitrary interference with privacy, or attacks on reputation.
13. Freedom to move within the borders of each state, and the right to leave any country, including your own, and to return home.
14. The right to seek and find in other countries asylum from persecution (except for non-political crimes or acts against the purposes and principles of the United Nations.)
15. Everyone has the right to keep their nationality or to change it.
16. All adults have the right to marry and found a family, with rights to free consent to marry, and equal rights within marriage and in its dissolution. The family is protected by society and the State.
17. The right to own property, and not have it arbitrarily taken away.
18 The right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, with freedom to change religion or belief, and to follow your religion or belief in public and private.
19 The right to freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to seek and give information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
20. The right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association with others. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
21 The right to take part in the government of the country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
The right to equal access to public service.
The will of the people is the basis of the authority of government. This will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections, by universal and equal rights of adults to vote by secret vote or equivalent free voting.
22. Everyone has the right to social security and the economic, social and cultural rights essential for dignity and free development of personality, through national effort, international co-operation and according to the resources of each State.
23. The right to work, with free choice of employment, with just and favourable conditions of work and protection against unemployment. The right to equal pay for equal work. The right to just and favourable pay for work, to ensure that everyone and their families can live with dignity, supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions to protect their interests.
24. The right to rest and leisure, with reasonable working hours and regular paid holidays.
25. The right to a standard of living good enough for health and well-being, including food, clothes, housing medical care and necessary social services, and with security if jobless, sick, disabled, widowed, aged or with other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond their control. Special care and help for mothers and all children, regardless of birth.
26. Education. The right to free, compulsory elementary education. Technical and professional education must be generally available and higher education shall open to all on the basis of merit.
The aims of education are the full development of human personality, respect for human rights and basic freedoms, and promoting understanding, tolerance, friendship and peace among all nations, races and religions.
Parents have the right to choose their children’s education.
27. The right to join in freely in the cultural life of the community, enjoy the arts, and share in scientific progress and its benefits. The right of protection of moral and material interests for anyone’s scientific, literary or artistic work.
28. Everyone’s right to live in a social and international order with all these rights and freedoms.
29. Duties. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
In exercising their rights and freedoms, everyone shall be limited only by the legal requirements to recognise and respect the rights and freedoms of others, and the just requirements of morality, public order and everybody’s general welfare in a democratic society.
30. These rights and freedoms may never be exercised against the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
No State, group or person has any right to do anything aimed at destroying any of these rights and freedoms. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying that they can.
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