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- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and
- conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
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- Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction
- of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or
- social origin, property, birth or other status.
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- Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international
- status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust,
- non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
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- Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
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- No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all
- their forms.
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- No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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- Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
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- All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the
- law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration
- and against any incitement to such discrimination.
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- 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.
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- No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal
- offence was committed.
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- No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or
- correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the
- protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
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- Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
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- Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
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- Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
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- 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.
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- Everyone has the right to a nationality.
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- No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
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- 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. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during
- marriage and at its dissolution.
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- Marriage shall be entered into only with free and full consent of the intending spouses.
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- The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by
- society and the State.
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- Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
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- No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
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- 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.
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- Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold
- opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any
- media and regardless of frontiers.
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- Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
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- No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
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- Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely
- chosen representatives.
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- Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country.
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- The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed
- in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held
- by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
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- Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization,
- through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization
- and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his
- dignity and the free development of his personality.
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- Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions
- of work and to protection against unemployment.
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- Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
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- Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and
- his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means
- of social protection.
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- Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
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- Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and
- periodic holidays with pay.
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- 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.
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- Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born
- in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
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- Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and
- fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional
- education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to
- all on the basis of merit.
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- Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the
- strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote
- understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall
- further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
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- Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
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- Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts
- and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
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- Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any
- scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
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- Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth
- in this Declaration can be fully realized.
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- Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his
- personality is possible.
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- In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as
- are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights
- and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the
- general welfare in a democratic society.
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- These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of
- the United Nations.
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- Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right
- to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and
- freedoms set forth herein.
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