An introduction to Human Rights legislation
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration by the United Nations General Assembly. It establishes basic human rights -- rights that all people have regardless of colour, creed social position or wealth. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948.
The UDHR is translated into over 300 languages. Broadly, it encompasses the following concepts:
All people are born free and equal, because they have reason and conscience.
Everyone has a right to life, liberty, and security of their person.
Everyone should be protected from any kind of discrimination.
Everyone has a right to have a nationality and change one's nationality.
Everyone has a right to an education.
Everyone has a right to get a job.
Everyone has a right to vote and take part in the government of one's own country.
Everyone has a right to take part in cultural life—to choose a way of life.
No person may be tortured, or treated in a cruel or unkind way.
Everyone has the right to seek and gain asylum from persecution.
Everyone has a right to have ideas or opinions, to decide what is right and what is wrong, and to choose a religion.
Everyone has a right to speak or write freely and right to join a peaceful group to express one's opinion.
Everyone has a right to security if suffering unemployment, disease, disability, old age or loss of a partner.
Everyone has duties to the community where one's personality can be developed freely.
No one can abuse the rights to destroy the freedom or rights in this Declaration.