A*: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Article 1   Everyone is born free and equal in dignity and with rights.  

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Article 2   You should never be discriminated against for any reason. Rights belong to all people, whatever our differences.

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Article 3   Everyone has the rights to life, liberty and security.

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Article 4   No‐one shall be held in slavery or servitude.

Article 5   No‐one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6   You have the right to be treated as a person in the eyes of the law.

Article 7   You have the right to be treated by the law in the same way as everyone else. Everyone has a right to protection   against violations of their human rights.

Article 8   If your rights under law are violated, you have the right to see justice done in a court or tribunal.

Article 9   No‐one shall be subject to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10   You have the right to a fair and public trial by an independent and impartial tribunal.

Article 11   Everyone is to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a fair trial. No one should be charged with a criminal offence for an act which wasn’t an offence at the time the act was done.

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Article 12   No‐one has the right to intrude in your private life or interfere with your home and family without good reason. No‐one has the right to attack your good name without reason.

Article 13   You have the right to freedom of movement within your country. Everyone has the right to leave a country and to return home.

Article 14   You have the right to seek and to enjoy asylum from persecution in other countries. You may not invoke this right if fleeing just laws in your own country.

Article 15   You have the right to a nationality.

Article 16   You have the right to marry and to raise a family. Men and women have the same rights when they are married and when they are separated.

Article 17   You have the right to own property and it cannot randomly be taken away from you.

Article 18   You have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion and to peacefully express those beliefs in teaching, practice and worship.

Article 19   You have the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

Article 20   You have the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

Article 21   You have the right to take part in the government of your country.

Article 22   As a member of society, you have a right to social security.

Article 23   You have the right to work, to good working conditions, to equal pay for equal work and to form and join unions.

Article 24   You have the right to rest and leisure.

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Article 25   You have the right to a decent life, including enough food, clothing, housing, medical care and social services.

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Article 26   You have the right to an education.

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Article 27   No‐one may stop you from participating in the cultural life of your community.

Article 28   You have the right to live in the kind of world where your rights and freedoms are respected.

Article 29   We all have a responsibility to the people around us and should protect their rights and freedoms.

Article 30   There is nothing in this declaration that justifies any person or country taking away the rights to which we are all entitled.

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These two articles point out the fact that we are guaranteed many rights in this world but if we want rights, then we also have to have ________________________ to others.

A*: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Is this true right now?

Does everyone follow this rule now?

Give an example from history that shows that people have not always followed this rule.

Is everyone today always guaranteed these rights?

What do all four of these articles have in common?

Do you think this right is important enough to be included in this document? Why or why not?

Is everyone guaranteed this right today?

Why do you think this article was included in this document? What would happen if people were denied this right?

These two articles point out the fact that we are guaranteed many rights in this world but if we want rights, then we also have to have ________________________ to others.

Is this true right now?

Give an example from history that shows that this has not always been true.

Does everyone follow this rule now?

Give an example from history that shows that people have not always followed this rule.

Is everyone today always guaranteed these rights?

What do all four of these articles have in common?

Do you think this right is important enough to be included in this document? Why or why not?

Is everyone guaranteed this right today?

Why do you think this article was included in this document? What would happen if people were denied this right?

These two articles point out the fact that we are guaranteed many rights in this world but if we want rights, then we also have to have ________________________ to others.

Give an example from history that shows that this has not always been true.