Thanks to the Declaration, and States’ commitments to its principles, the dignity of millions has been uplifted, untold human suffering prevented and the foundations for a more just World have been laid.
(Eleanor Roosevelt and UNs Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1949))
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement released on Wednesday that the document has gone from being an “aspirational treatise” to a set of standards that has “permeated virtually every area of international law.”
- All people are born free and equal, because they have reason and conscience.
- Everyone has a right to life, liberty, and security of their person.
- Everyone should be protected from any kind of discrimination.
- Everyone has a right to have a nationality and change one's nationality. Everyone has a right to an education.
- Everyone has a right to get a job.
- Everyone has a right to vote and take part in the government of one's own country.
- Everyone has a right to take part in cultural life—to choose a way of life.
- No person may be tortured, or treated in a cruel or unkind way.
- Everyone has the right to seek and gain asylum from persecution.
- Everyone has a right to have ideas or opinions, to decide what is right and what is wrong, and to choose a religion.
- Everyone has a right to speak or write freely and the right to join a peaceful group to express one's opinion.
- Everyone has a right to security if suffering unemployment, disease, disability, old age or loss of a partner.
- Everyone has duties to the community where one's personality can be developed freely.
- No one can abuse the rights to destroy the freedom or rights in this Declaration.
Wendy kindly let me know that, "Futurelearn have a course on this coming up in conjunction with amnesty international."
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