Universal+Declaration+of+Human+Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights [|From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] The **Universal Declaration of Human Rights** (**UDHR**) is a declaration adopted by the [|United Nations General Assembly] on 10 December 1948 at [|Palais de Chaillot], Paris. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the [|Second World War] and represents the first global expression of [|rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled]. It consists of 30 articles which have been elaborated in subsequent international treaties, regional human rights instruments, national constitutions and laws. The [|International Bill of Human Rights] consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the [|International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights], and the [|International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights] and its two Optional Protocols. In 1966 the General Assembly adopted the two detailed Covenants, which complete the International Bill of Human Rights; and in 1976, after the Covenants had been ratified by a sufficient number of individual nations, the Bill took on the force of [|international law].[|[][|1][[[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights#cite_note-1]|]]]

==[|Universal Declaration of Human Rights] ==

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 General Assembly resolution 217 A (III)  ( French ) ( Spanish ) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. This website contains any available UDHR translations with no distinction between languages and dialects since all of them serve the purpose of global dissemination. At present, there are**385 different translations** of UDHR, available in HTML and/or PDF format.

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==[|Universal Declaration of Human Rights] ==

==PREAMBLE == Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS**as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 1. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 2. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone 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, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 3. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 4. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 6. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 7. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All 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 discrimination.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 8. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 9. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 10. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 11. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence 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 defence.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 14. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 15. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 16. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) 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. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 18. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 19. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 21. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in 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.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 22. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone, 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, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 23. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 24. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 25. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) 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, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) 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.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 26. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 27. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) 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.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(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.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 28. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 29. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

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===<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #660000; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Article 30. ===
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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