Human Rights

Human Rights
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Human rights are standards that recognize
and protect the dignity of all human beings.
Human rights govern how individual human
beings live in society and with each other, as
well as their relationship with the State and
the obligations that the State have towards
them.
Article 1
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.
Article 2
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.
Article 3
Everyone has the right to
life, liberty and security of
person.
Article 4
No one shall be held in slavery
or servitude; slavery and the
slave trade shall be prohibited
in all their forms.
Article 5
No one shall be subjected to
torture or to cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or
punishment.
Article 6
Everyone has the right to
recognition everywhere as a
person before the law.
Article 7
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.
Article 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.
Article 9
No one shall be subjected to
arbitrary arrest, detention or
exile.
Article 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.
Article 11
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.
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.
Article 12
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.
In the case of Zulueta vs. Court of Appeals, February 26,1996
The intimacies between husband and wife do not justify any
one of them in breaking the drawers and cabinets of other in
ransacking them for any telltale evidence of marital infidelity.
A person by contracting marriage, does not shed his/her
integrity or his right to privacy as an individual and the
constitutional protection is ever available to him or to her.
Article 13
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of
movement and residence within the
borders of each state.
2. Everyone has the right to leave any

country, including his own, and to
return to his country.
Article 14
1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy
in other countries asylum from persecution.
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.
Article 15
1. Everyone has the right to a
nationality.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily

deprived of his nationality nor
denied the right to change his
nationality.
Article 16
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.
2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full
consent of the intending spouses.
3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of

society and is entitled to protection by society and the
State.
Article 17
1. Everyone has the right to own
property alone as well as in
association with others.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily

deprived of his property.
Article 18
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.
Article 19
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.
Article 20
1. Everyone has the right to
freedom of peaceful assembly
and association.
2. No one may be compelled to

belong to an association.
Article 21
Everyone 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 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.
Article 22
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.
Article 23
1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of
employment, to just and favourable conditions of
work and to protection against unemployment.
2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the

right to equal pay for equal work.
3. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade

unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24
Everyone has the right to rest and
leisure, including reasonable
limitation of working hours and
periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25
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.
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.
Article 26
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.
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.
3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall
be given to their children.
Article 27
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.
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.
Article 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.
Article 29
1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the
free and full development of his personality is possible.
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.
3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised

contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 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.
Thank you.

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Human Rights

1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to

2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on

2. Everyone has the right to leave any

2) This right may not be invoked in the case of

2. No one shall be arbitrarily

3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of

2. No one shall be arbitrarily

2. No one may be compelled to

2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the

3. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade

2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and

2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human

2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the

2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be

3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised

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