Human Rights

No one shall be held in

All human beings are born

free and equal in dignity and

slavery or servitude;

Everyone has the

rights. They are endowed

slavery and the slave

right to life,

with reason and conscience

trade shall be

liberty and

and should act towards one

prohibited in all their

security of

another in a spirit of

forms.

person.

brotherhood.

(1) Everyone has the right to

Everyone has the

freedom of movement and

residence within the borders of

No one shall be

right to

subjected to torture

recognition

each state.

or to cruel, inhuman

everywhere as a

(2) Everyone has the right to leave

or degrading

person before

any country, including his own, and

treatment or

the law.

to return to his country.

punishment.
Everyone has the
Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions without
interference and to seek, receive and

Everyone has the right

right to freedom

to rest and leisure,

of peaceful

including reasonable

assembly and

limitation of working

association.

hours and periodic

impart information and ideas through any

holidays with pay.

media and regardless of frontiers.

No one shall be
subjected to
arbitrary arrest,
detention or
exile.

Marriage shall be
entered into only
with the free
and full consent
of the intending
spouses.

No one shall be

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

to freely participate in
the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy the
arts and to share in
scientific advancement
and its benefits

of his nationality nor

denied the right to
change his

criminal charge against him.

Everyone has the right

arbitrarily deprived

nationality.

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.