Lesson 3 Flashcards
The most translated document in the world.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
it serves as guide to every country in crafting their laws and policies concerning human rights.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Article 1
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the Declaration, without distinction of any kind,
Article 2
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and
security of person.
Article 3
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 4
No one shall be subjected to torture or to
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 5
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 6
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law
Article 7
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 8
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 9
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
Article 10
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.
Article 11 (1)
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.
Article 12
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.
Article 11 (2)
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
Article 13 (1)
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country
Article 13 (2)
Everyone has the right to seek and to
enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution
Article 14 (1)
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.
Article 14 (2)
Everyone has the right to a nationality.
Article 15 (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.
Article 16 (1)