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Univesal Declaration Of Human Rights
ARTICLE 1
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
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this
Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex,
language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin,
furthermore no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political,
jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which
a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust non-self governing or
under any other limitation of sovereignty.
ARTICLE
3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.
ARTICLE
4
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude, slavery, and the slave trade
shall be prohibited in all their forms.
ARTICLE
5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment.
ARTICLE
6
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
ARTICLE
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.
ARTICLE
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.
ARTICLE
9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.
ARTICLE
10
Everyone is entitled in full equal 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.
ARTICLE
11
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent
until proved guilty according to the law in a public trial at which he has
had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or
omission which did not constitute a 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 hearer
penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal
offence was committed.
ARTICLE
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.
ARTICLE
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 county.
ARTICLE
14
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from
persecution.
This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising
from non-political crimes or from act6s contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations.
ARTICLE
15
Everyone has the right arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied
the right to charge his nationality
ARTICLE
16
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 its
dissolution.
Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the
intending spouses.
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and the
state.
ARTICLE
17
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with
others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
ARTICLE
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.
ARTICLE
19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right
includes freedom to hold opinion without interference and to seek, receive
and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of
frontiers.
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