Universal Declaration of Human

Rights
Introduction
• Universal declaration of human right was published by the United nations in
1948

• An eight-member drafting committee prepared the preliminary text of the

Universal Declaration.

• It lists the rights that all people have.

• It covers the range of human rights in 30 clear and concise articles

• First two articles lay the universal foundation of human rights.

• Articles 3 to 21, sets forth civil and political rights to which everyone is entitled.

• Articles 22 to 27, sets forth the economic, social and cultural rights to which all
human beings are entitled.
 Article 18 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
• Right to religious freedom stood out as one of its central
principles
- Establishment of International Human Rights in the
1940
• One of the challenges that faced the United Nations’ original
Commission on Human Rights and its designated Drafting
Committee
• Resolved by crafting Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
• “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.”
• Linguistic minority groups have a great interest in seeing their
language rights are protected by religion and courts of law
• Article 18 of the Declaration gives all the rights majority
religious groups to minority religious groups
- Right to conduct all or any religious activities in their
native tongue
• Not supporting or opposing with respect to matters of religion,
issues of gender
• Article 18 says that;
- Every person, of whatever religious has “the right to freedom of
thought, conscience and religion”
- It prohibits the forces which would be damage to the implement
of this right
- Freedom to manifest religion or beliefs should be within the
limitations specified by law
- It protect public safety, order, health or morals or the
fundamental rights and freedoms of others
- It allows, parents and legal guardians to determine the
religious and moral education of their children
Any person has the freedom to change his religion or belief

Either alone or in community with others and in public or

private

To manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice,

worship and observance

Set up the framework

Every person is free to follow a religion or beliefs in his or
her own way, alone or with others who interested on
them in mind and heart
Article 18 relating to the Sri
Lankan context
• The religion freedom is a basic human right of a country.

• Accordingly the legal system of Sri Lanka have being also provided with necessary
laws to protect basic human rights of various religion within the country.

• penal legislation enacted by British legal system to the 1978 constitution and many
other recent legislations provide many legal provision, to enhance religion
freedom in country.

• The constitutional provisions which have a direct bearing on religious freedom in

Sri Lanka are Article 9, 10 and 14 of the constitution.
• Article 14 provides that “Every citizen is entitled to the freedom, either by
himself or in association of others, and either in public or private, to manifest his
religion or belief in worship, observance, practice or teaching”

• Article 10, Every person is entitled to freedom of thought, conscience and

religion, including the freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his
choice.
Suggestions
• Every Adult (above 18) can change his or her religion without
any ones interference.

• No one should be forcefully drag towards a religion

• One cannot disturb any other religion

• No one should come up with reason to his own belief
• One should not belief the direct teaching of their religion,
when he feel like not agree he should have freedom to avoid
those and go only with agreeable things
• Any of the other should not question about ones religion
• There must be specific standard in order to assure these
Rights being implementing well or not

• Any one should have the freedom to worship their own

religion in any of the place in the world without disturbing
others.