Universal Decleration of

Human Rights
And its implications on different countries

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.
Presented By: M Shamim uddin
 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) 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 and it has been translated into
over 500 languages.
• UDHR consists of 30 Articles which defines basic
human rights through out the world. 30 Articles
 Human Rights Articles
01 Article 1: Right to Equality
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: Freedom from
02 discrimination
Without distinction of any kind, such as
race, color, sex, language, religion,
political or other opinion, national or
social origin, property, birth or other
status
03 Article 3: Right to Life, Liberty,
Personal Security
A public authority can never use
lack of resources as a defense
against an accusation that it has
treated someone in an inhuman or
degrading way.
Article 4: Freedom
04
from Slavery
No one shall be held in slavery or
servitude; slavery and the slave
trade shall be prohibited in all their
forms.
 Human Rights Articles
Article 5: Freedom from Torture and Article 7 :Right to
Degrading Treatment Recognition as a Person
before the Law
No one shall be subjected to Everyone has the right to
torture or to cruel, inhuman recognition everywhere
or degrading treatment or as a person before the
punishment law.
Article 6:Right to Article 8:Freedom from
Equality before the Arbitrary Arrest and
Law Exile

All are equal before the law and are entitled No one shall be
without any discrimination to equal protection of subjected to arbitrary
the law. All are entitled to equal protection against arrest, detention or
any discrimination in violation of this Declaration exile.
and against any incitement to such discrimination
 Human Rights Articles

9 Article 9:Right to Remedy 11 Right to be Considered Innocent until

Proven Guilty
by Competent Tribunal
Everyone has the right to an effective No one shall be held guilty of any
remedy by the competent national penal offence on account of any
tribunals for acts violating the
fundamental rights granted him by the
act or omission which did not
constitution or by law. constitute a penal offence, under
1 national or international law, at
Article 10: Right to Fair
0 Public Hearing the time when it was committed.
Nor shall a heavier penalty be
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a
fair and public hearing by an imposed than the one that was
independent and impartial tribunal, in the applicable at the time the penal
determination of his rights and offence was committed.
obligations and of any criminal charge
against him.
 Human Rights Articles
Article 12:Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Article 14:Right to Asylum in other
Family, Home and Correspondence Countries from Persecution
Everyone has the right to
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary seek and to enjoy in other
interference with his privacy, family, countries asylum from
home or correspondence, nor to attacks persecution.
upon his honor and reputation. Everyone
has the right to the protection of the law
against such interference or attacks. Article 15: Right to a
Nationality and the Freedom
to Change It
Article 13: Right to Free Movement in 1. Everyone has the right to a
and out of the Country nationality.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement deprived of his nationality nor
and residence within the borders of each state. denied the right to change his
nationality.
 Human Rights Article
Right to Marriage Freedom of Belief
16 18
and Family and Religion
1. Men and women of full age,
Everyone has the right to
without any limitation due to
race, nationality or religion, have freedom of thought, conscience
the right to marry and to found a and religion; this right includes
family. They are entitled to equal freedom to change his religion
rights as to marriage, during or belief, and freedom, either
marriage and at its dissolution. alone or in community with
17 Right to Own others and in public or private,
Property to manifest his religion or belief
in teaching, practice, worship
1. Everyone has the right to own property and observance.
alone as well as in association with
others. Freedom of Opinion and
19
2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of Information
his property. Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression
 Human Rights Articles
Article 20: Right of Peaceful Assembly Article 22: Right to Social Security
and Association
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of
Everyone, as a member of society,
peaceful assembly and association.
has the right to social security and
2. No one may be compelled to belong to an
is entitled to realization, through
association.
national effort and international
Article 21: Right to Participate co-operation and in accordance
in Government and in Free with the organization and
Elections resources of each State, of the
economic, social and cultural
rights indispensable for his dignity
1. Everyone has the right to take part in the
and the free development of his
government of his country, directly or through
personality.
freely chosen representatives.
2. Everyone has the right of equal access to public
service in his country.
 Human Rights Articles
Article 23:Right to Desirable 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 himself
and his 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 his interests
Article 24: Right to Rest
and Leisure
Everyone has the right to rest and
leisure, including reasonable
limitation of working hours and
periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25:Right to Adequate Living
Standard
Everyone has the right to a standard of living
adequate for the health and well-being of
himself and of his family.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to
special care and assistance.
 Human Rights Articles
Article 26: Right to Education
1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall
be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental
stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory.
Jupiterand professional education shall be made
Technical
generally available and higher education shall be
equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Higher
2.Parents have a prior right to
choose the kind of education that Secondary
shall be given to their children.
Primary
3.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.
.
 Human Rights Articles
Article 27:Right to Participate in the
Cultural Life of Community

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.
 Conditions Necessary for Rights
Article 28:Right to a Social Order that Article 29:Community Duties Essential
to Free and Full Development
Articulates this Document
1. Everyone has duties to the community in
which alone the free and full development
1. Everyone is entitled to a social and
of his personality is possible.
international order in which the rights
2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms,
and freedoms set forth in this
everyone shall be subject only to such
Declaration can be fully realized.
limitations as are determined by law
2. Right to live in peace. We all have the
solely for the purpose of securing due
right to live in a peaceful and orderly
recognition and respect for the rights and
society so that these rights and Social Order
freedoms of others and of meeting the just
freedoms can be protected, and these
requirements of morality, public order and
rights can be enjoyed in all other
the general welfare in a democratic
countries around the world.
society.
 Conditions Necessary for Rights
Article30: Freedom from State or
Personal Interference in the above
Rights (limits of Tyrants)

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..
Resources:
• https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-
human-rights
• ://hrlibrary.umn.edu/edumat/hreduseries/hereandnow/P
art-5/8_udhr-abbr.htm

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