Some Human Rights

The UN General Assembly,
Proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples . . .

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration . . . [Article 2]

Everyone has the right to life . . . [Article 3]

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

No one shall be subjected to . . . cruel, . . . degrading treatment or punishment. [Article 5]

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family . . . or correspondence . . . Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. [Article 12]

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 . . . The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. [Article 16]

Everyone has the right to own property . . . No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. [Article 17]

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 18]

No one may be compelled to belong to an association. [Article 20]

Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration . . . Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests. [Article 23]

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure . . . [Article 24]

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. [Article 25]

Everyone has the right to education . . . Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality . . . Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. [Article 26]

Sampled from the ◦UN Declaration of Human Rights, with emphasises added. Are these freedoms yours too? In recent years many countries have legalised the Human Rights by Human Rights Laws. [◦More]