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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) – significant milestone in human

rights history.
Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms in this Declaration
without distinction of any kind.
Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security.
Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude.
Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhumane, or degrading
treatment or punishment.
Article 6: Everyone has the right to be recognized as person before the law.
Article 7: Everyone is equal before the law and is entitled to equal protection of
the law.
Article 8: Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by competent national
tribunals for acts violating his fundamental rights.
Article 9: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.
Article 10: Everyone has the right to a fair and public hearing.
Article 11: Everyone has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Article 12: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy,
family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation.
Article 13: Everyone has the right to freedom of movement in and out of a
country.
Article 14: Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy asylum from persecution in
other countries.
Article 15: Everyone has the to a nationality and the right to change it.
Article 16: Everyone has the right to marriage and to form a family.
Article 17: Everyone has the right to own property.
Article 18: Everyone has the right to freedom of belief and religion.
Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
Article 20: Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
and may not be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21: Everyone has the right to participate in the government of his country
and in free elections, and the right to equal access to public service in his country.
Article 22: Everyone has the right to social security.
Article 23: Everyone has the right to work un favorable conditions and the right to
equal pay for equal work.
Article 24: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure.
Article 25: Everyone has the right to adequate living standards. Motherhood and
childhood are entitled to special acre and assistance. All children shall enjoy the
same social protection.
Article 26: Everyone has the right to education.
Article 27: Everyone has the right to participate in the cultural life of the
community, and the right to the protection of the moral and material interests of
any work of which he is the author.
Article 28: Everyone is entitled to asocial and international order in which the
rights and freedoms of this Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29: Everyone has duties to the community in which he can freely and fully
develop his personality. In this exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall
be recognize and respect the rights and freedoms of others.
Article 30: Nothing int his Declaration gives any State, group, or person the right to
engage in any act that will destroy any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

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