Your 30 human rights explained BY MR.RIGHTS
Your 30 human rights explained BY MR.RIGHTS
Every human all over
the world have 30 rights, irrespective of your race, tribe or religion, be it
in Africa, Asia,
Europe or America, these rights are the same,
they are universal and are constant. The rights cannot be taken away by
anybody; neither can it be denied by any institution both locally and
internationally.
The 30 rights are
contained in the universal declaration of human rights passed by the United
Nations in 1948, and every individual either old or young, men or women,
educated or illiterates should know and teach others about it.
It is important that
we all learn about these rights, teach our children, friends and family and
every individual we encounter. This is because, knowledge they say is power.
The more people are educated about human rights, the better we are able to
prevent its violation.
Rights 1
We are all born
free and equal
What do we mean by
this? It means that we should be treated in the same way.
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.
Rights 2
Freedom
from discrimination
Discrimination simply means, putting a difference
between two or more people on the basis of sex, birth, race, colour, or
religion.
Rights 3
Right to
life, liberty and security
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security
of person.
Rights 4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery
and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Rights 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Rights 6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a
person before the law.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest,
detention or exile.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 20
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful
assembly and association. (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an
association.
Rights 21
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the
government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (2)
Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. (3)
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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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 who works has the right to just and favourable
remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human
dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. (4)
Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of
his interests.
Rights 24
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including
reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Rights 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.
Watch out
for the next edition for detailed explanation with practical examples of how
these rights can be protected against infringements.
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