Human rights

* Human rights *

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1 / First Article

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and must act towards each other in a spirit of brotherhood.


2 / Article second

1- Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms proclaimed in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, including race, color, sex, language, religion, political opinion or any other opinion. , national or social origin, wealth, birth or any other status.

2- In addition, no distinction will be made based on the political, legal or international status of the country or territory of which a person is a national, whether this country or territory is independent, under trusteeship, non-autonomous or subject to any limitation. of sovereignty.


3 / Article third

Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.


4 / Article fourth

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade are prohibited in all their forms.


5 / Article fifth

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.


6 / Sixth article

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere of their legal personality.


7 / Article seventh

All are equal before the law and are entitled without distinction 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 discrimination.


8 / Article eight

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 / / Article ninth

No one may be arbitrarily arrested, detained or exiled.


10 / Article tenth

Everyone has the right, in full equality, to have their case heard fairly and publicly by an independent and impartial tribunal, which will decide either their rights and obligations or the merits of any criminal charge against them. .


11 / Article eleven

1- Any person accused of a criminal act is presumed innocent until his guilt has been legally established during a public trial where all the guarantees necessary for his defense will have been assured to him.

2- No one will be condemned for actions or omissions which, at the time when they were committed, did not constitute a criminal act according to national or international law. Similarly, no penalty greater than that which was applicable at the time the criminal act was committed shall be inflicted.


12 / Article twelfth

No one shall be subject to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks on his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.


13 / Article thirteen

1- Everyone has the right to move freely and to choose their residence within a State.

2- Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.


14 / Article fourteen

1- Faced with persecution, everyone has the right to seek asylum and to benefit from asylum in other countries.

2- This right cannot be invoked in the case of proceedings actually based on a common law crime or on acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.


15 / Article fifteen

1- Everyone has the right to a nationality.

2- No one may be arbitrarily deprived of their nationality, nor of the right to change nationality.


16 / Article sixteen

1- From marriageable age, men and women, without any restriction as to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and found a family. They have equal rights with respect to marriage, during marriage and upon its dissolution.

2- Marriage can only be concluded with the free and full consent of the future spouses.

3- The family is the natural and fundamental unit of society and is entitled to the protection of society and the State.


17 / Article seventeenth

1- Everyone, both alone and in a community, has the right to own property.

2- No one may be arbitrarily deprived of his property.


18 / Article eighteen

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes the freedom to change one's religion or belief as well as the freedom to manifest one's religion or belief, alone or in common, both in public and in private, through teaching, practice, worship and worship. performance of rituals.


19 / Article nineteenth

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, which implies the right not to be disturbed for his opinions and the right to seek, receive and impart, regardless of frontiers, information and ideas through any means of expression.


20 / Article twentieth

1- Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

2- No one can be forced to belong to an association.


21 / Article twenty-first

1- Everyone has the right to take part in the management of the public affairs of his country, either directly or through freely chosen representatives.

2- Everyone has the right to access, under equal conditions, to the public functions of his country.

3- The will of the people is the basis of the authority of public powers; this will must be expressed by honest elections which must take place periodically, by equal universal suffrage and by secret ballot or following an equivalent procedure guaranteeing the freedom of the vote.


22 / Article twenty-second

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security; it is founded on obtaining satisfaction of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable to its dignity and to the free development of its personality, thanks to national effort and international cooperation, taking into account the organization and resources of each country .


23 / Article twenty-third

1- Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to fair and satisfactory working conditions and to protection against unemployment.

2- Everyone has the right, without any discrimination, to equal pay for equal work.

3- Anyone who works has the right to fair and satisfactory remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity and supplemented, if necessary, by all other means of social protection.

4- Everyone has the right to form trade unions with others and to join trade unions for the defense of their interests.


24 / Article twenty-fourth

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure and in particular to a reasonable limitation of working hours and to periodic paid leave.


25 / Article twenty-fifth

1- Everyone has the right to a standard of living sufficient to ensure his health, his well-being and that of his family, in particular for food, clothing, housing, medical care as well as for the necessary social services. ; she has the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, invalidity, widowhood, old age or in other cases of loss of her means of subsistence as a result of circumstances beyond her control.

2- Maternity and childhood are entitled to special help and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, enjoy the same social protection.


26 / Article twenty-sixth

1- Everyone has the right to education. Education must be free, at least as far as elementary and fundamental education is concerned. Elementary education is compulsory. Technical and vocational education must be generalized; access to higher education must be open in full equality to all on the basis of their merit.

2- Education must aim at the full development of the human personality and the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It must promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations and all racial or religious groups, as well as the development of the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

3- Parents have, as a priority, the right to choose the kind of education to be given to their children.


27 / Article twenty-seventh

1- Everyone has the right to take part freely in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to participate in scientific progress and the benefits resulting therefrom.

2- Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.


28/ Article twenty-eighth

Everyone has the right to social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can find full effect.


29 / Article twenty-ninth

1- The individual has duties towards the community in which only the free and full development of his personality is possible.

2- In the exercise of his rights and in the enjoyment of his freedoms, everyone is subject only to the limitations established by law exclusively with a view to ensuring the recognition and respect of the rights and freedoms of others and in order to to meet the just requirements of morality, public order and general welfare in a democratic society.

3- These rights and freedoms may not, under any circumstances, be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.


30 / Article thirtieth

No provision of this Declaration may be interpreted as implying, for a State, a group or an individual, any right whatsoever to engage in an activity or to perform an act aimed at the destruction of the rights and freedoms set out therein.


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