30 Universal Declaration of HR
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WHAT IS THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND WHY WAS IT CREATED?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a document that acts like a global road map for freedom and equality – protecting the rights of every individual, everywhere. It was the first time countries agreed on the freedoms and rights that deserve universal protection in order for every individual to live their lives freely, equally and in dignity.
The UDHR was adopted by the newly established United Nations on 10 December 1948, in response to the “barbarous acts which outraged the conscience of mankind” during the Second World War. Its adoption recognized human rights to be the foundation for freedom, justice and peace.
Work on the UDHR began in 1946, with a drafting committee composed of representatives of a wide variety of countries, including the USA, Lebanon and China. The drafting committee was later enlarged to include representatives of Australia, Chile, France, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, allowing the document to benefit from contributions of states from all regions, and their diverse religious, political and cultural contexts. The UDHR was then discussed by all members of the UN Commission on Human Rights and finally adopted by the General Assembly in 1948.
The Declaration outlines 30 rights and freedoms that belong to all of us and that nobody can take away from us. The rights that were included continue to form the basis for international human rights law. Today, the Declaration remains a living document. It is the most translated document in the world.
The future of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The UDHR legacy challenges us to go on the offensive. It demands that we resist the globalised, transnational and localised attacks against rights. But it also tells us this won’t be enough. It asks of us too that we disrupt the building of world orders that reproduce historical privileges and injustices, violate rights and silence defenders; and that we transformglobal governance by re-imagining, innovating, leading.
We can, we must – build bold, visionary leadership, institutions and systems – that can protect our planet, for future generations, and from all that torments us.
- Right to Equality:All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
- Freedom from Discrimination:No discrimination based on race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status.
- Right to Life, Liberty, and Security:Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.
- Freedom from Slavery:No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
- Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment:No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
- Right to Recognition as a Person before the Law:Everyone is entitled to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
- Right to Equality before the Law:All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.
- Right to Remedy by Competent Tribunal:Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted by the constitution or by law.
- Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest and Exile:No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.
- Right to Fair Public Hearing:Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of their rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against them.
- Right to be Considered Innocent until Proven Guilty:Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a public trial at which they have had all the guarantees necessary for their defense.
- Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home, and Correspondence:No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with their privacy, family, home, or correspondence, nor to attacks upon their honor and reputation.
- Right to Free Movement in and out of the Country:Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state and to leave any country, including their own, and to return to their country.
- Right to Asylum:Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
- Right to a Nationality and the Freedom to Change It:Everyone has the right to a nationality, and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their nationality nor denied the right to change their nationality.
- Right to Marriage and Family: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.
- Right to Own Property:Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
- Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion:Everyone 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 or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
- Freedom of Opinion and Expression: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.
- Right to Peaceful Assembly and Association:Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
- Right to Participate in Government and Equal Access to Public Service:Everyone has the right to take part in the government of their country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in their country.
- Right to Social Security: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 their dignity and the free development of their personality.
- Right to Work and to Join Trade Unions:Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for themselves and their family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of their interests.
- Right to Rest and Leisure:Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
- Right to Adequate Living Standard:Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of themselves and 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 beyond their control.
- Right to Education: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.
- Right to Participate in Cultural Life and Enjoy the Arts: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.
- Right to a Social Order that Articulates This Document:Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
- Community Duties Essential to Free and Full Development:Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of their personality is possible.
- Freedom from State or Personal Interference in the Above Rights: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.
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