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OBJECTIVES
To establish human rights principles under
international laws as a common standard which detail
the human rights to which all human beings are
entitled.
To establish human rights principles in an effort to
ensure that human beings can create a world in which
they can live in harmony with one another.
SCOPE
To provide for the protection and enforcement of
civil and political human rights and economic,
social and cultural rights through international
co-operation and to promote respect for these rights
by progressive measures through teaching and
education.
ARTICLE 1
All human beings are born 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 the human rights set out in
the Declaration regardless of race, colour, sex,
language, religion, political or other opinion,
national or social origin, property, birth or other
status.
ARTICLE 3
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the
security of person.
ARTICLE 4
No one shall be held in slavery and slavery shall be
against the law.
ARTICLE 5
No one shall be subjected to torture or to
cruel/inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
ARTICLE 6 -7
Everyone has the right to be treated as person by
the law; everyone has the right to be treated
equally by the law.
ARTICLE 8
Everyone has the right to effective remedy before
the law.
ARTICLE 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest,
detention or exile.
ARTICLE 10
Everyone has the right to a fair and public hearing
by an independent tribunal in any criminal charge
against him.
ARTICLE 11
Everyone shall be presumed to be innocent until
found guilty by a competent tribunal.
No one shall be convicted of a crime if his
behaviour was not against the law at the time that
he did what he did.
ARTICLE 12
Everyone has the right to privacy of his person,
home, family or correspondence and everyone has the
right to be protected by the law.
ARTICLE 13
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and
residence in his country. This includes the right to
leave and re-enter his country.
ARTICLE 14
Everyone has the right to political asylum to escape
persecution in his country except where his
extradition is sought for prosecution of non-
political crime.
ARTICLE 15
Everyone has the right to a nationality.
ARTICLE 16
All men and women of full age have equal rights to
marry and found a family. They have equal rights
before, during and after marriages. Marriages must
be entered into with the free consent of the
intending spouses. The family is the fundamental
group unit of society and is entitled to protection
by society and state.
ARTICLE 17
Everyone has the right to own property and the right
not to be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
ARTICLE 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought,
conscience and religion; this includes the right to
change one’s religion or belief and freedom to
practice that religion or belief in private or in
community with others.
ARTICLE 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and
expression which includes the right to receive and
impact information and ideas
ARTICLE 20
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful
assembly and association; no one may be compelled to
be long to an association.
ARTICLE 21
Everyone has the right to participate in the
government of his country, directly or through
freely chosen representatives. The will of the
people shall be the authority of government,
expressed through periodic free and fair elections
based on one person one vote and by secret ballot.
ARTICLE 22
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to
social security, and is entitled to his economic,
social and cultural rights to develop his
personality.
ARTICLE 23
Everyone has the right to work, the right to free
choice of employment, the right to just and
favourable conditions of work and the right to
protection from unemployment. Everyone has the right
to equal work, the right to favourable pay to enable
him and his family to live with dignity. Everyone
has the right to form and join a trade union to
protect his interests.
ARTICLE 24
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure.
Limitation of working hours and periodic holidays
with pay.
ARTICLE 25
Everyone has the right to an adequate standard of
living including food, clothing, housing and medical
care and necessary social services, and the right to
security when unemployed, ill, disabled, widowed or
in old age. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to
special care. All children, whether born in or out
of the wedlock, shall enjoy the same social
protection.
ARTICLE 26
Everyone has the right to education which shall be
free at least at primary level. Primary education
shall be compulsory. Technical and vocational
training shall be generally available and higher
education shall be equally accessible to all on the
basis of merit.
Human rights shall be taught at all level to
encourage tolerance and peace.
Parents have a right to choose the kind of education
that shall be given to their children.
ARTICLE 27
Everyone has the right to freely participate in the
cultural life of the community, the right to enjoy
the arts and the benefits of scientific advancement.
ARTICLE 28
Everyone has the right to an environment in which
these rights can be achieved.
ARTICLE 29
Everyone has the duty not to infringe the right of
others.
ARTICLE 30
Nothing in this Declaration shall entitle anyone to
infringe the rights guaranteed by this Declaration. |
