The following reproduces the articles of the Declaration which set out the specific human rights thatare recognized in the Declaration.
Article 1
All humanbeings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed withreason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit ofbrotherhood.
Article 2
Everyone is entitled toall the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinctionof any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or otheropinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political,jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which aperson belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or underany other limitation of sovereignty.
Article 3
Everyone has the right tolife, liberty, and security of person.
Article 4
No one shall be held inslavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in alltheir forms.
Article 5
No one shall be subjectedto torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6
Everyone has the right torecognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7
All are equal before thelaw and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation ofthis Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
Article 8
Everyone has the right toan effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating thefundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
Article 9
No one shall be subjectedto arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10
Everyone is entitled infull equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartialtribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of anycriminal charge against him.
Article 11
1.Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to bepresumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial atwhich he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
2.No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on accountof any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under nationalor international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavierpenalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penaloffence was committed.
Article 12
No one shall besubjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home orcorrespondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has theright to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13
1.Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residencewithin the borders of each state.
2.Everyone has the right to leave any country, including hisown, and to return to his country.
Article 14
1.Everyone has the right to seek and toenjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
2.This right may not be invoked in thecase of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from actscontrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 15
1.Everyone has the right to a nationality.
2.No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nordenied the right to change his nationality.
Article 16
1.Men and women of full age, without any limitation due torace, 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 itsdissolution.
2.Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and fullconsent of the intending spouses.
3.The family is the natural and fundamental group unit ofsociety and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17
1.Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as inassociation with others.
2.No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18
Everyone has the right tofreedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom tochange his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community withothers and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching,practice, worship and observance.
Article 19
Everyone has the right tofreedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinionswithout interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideasthrough any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20
1.Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly andassociation.
2.No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21
1.Everyone has the right to take part in the government of hiscountry, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
2.Everyone has the right of equal access to public service inhis country.
3.The will of the people shall be the basis of the authorityof government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine electionswhich shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret voteor by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22
Everyone, as a member ofsociety, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization,through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance withthe organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social andcultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of hispersonality.
Article 23
1.Everyone has the right to work, to free choice ofemployment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection againstunemployment.
2.Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equalpay for equal work.
3.Everyone who works has the right to just and favourableremuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of humandignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
4.Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions forthe protection of his interests.
Article 24
Everyone has the right torest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodicholidays with pay.
Article 25
1.Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate forthe health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food,clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the rightto security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, oldage or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
2.Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care andassistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy thesame social protection.
Article 26
1.Everyone has the right to education. Education shall befree, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary educationshall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be madegenerally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all onthe basis of merit.
2.Education shall be directed to the full development of thehuman personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights andfundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendshipamong all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activitiesof the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
3.Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of educationthat shall be given to their children.
Article 27
1.Everyone has the right freely to participate in the culturallife of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancementand its benefits.
2.Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral andmaterial interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artisticproduction of which he is the author.
Article 28
Everyone is entitled to asocial and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth inthis Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29
1.Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the freeand full development of his personality is possible.
2.In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shallbe subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for thepurpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms ofothers and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and thegeneral welfare in a democratic society.
3.These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercisedcontrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 30
Nothing in thisDeclaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person anyright to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destructionof any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.