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Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
By
Nilaramba Adhikari
MPH-259
Outline of the Seminar
• Human Right Situation in the Past
• Crusade for Human Rights
• Introduction to UDHR
• Criticisms
• UDHR and Nepal
• Conclusion
Human Right Situation in the past
Human behaved as Slaves
Racial Discrimination: Black Vs. White
Jewish girls at the Birkenau platform (Germany) waiting for death.
Jews at the Birkenau platform waiting for the death-life selection;
most were selected to be sent directly to the gas chambers
On the way to Death at Majdanek Nazi Extermination Camp(Poland)
Ovens for humans, Majdanek (Poland), 1944
• Few govern the many around the world
• Article 4:
Prohibition of slavery and slave trade.
• Article 5:
Prohibition of torture, cruel,
inhumane or degrading treatment or
punishment.
• Article 6:
Right to recognition everywhere as a
person before the law.
• Article 7: Equality before the law
• Article 10:
Entitlement to a fair and public court
hearing.
• Article 11:
Presumption of innocence until proved
guilty and no conviction without a
legal base
• Article 12:
Entitlement to protection of privacy
and private life.
• Article 13:
Right to freedom of movement.
• Article 14: Right to asylum from
persecution
1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy
in other countries asylum from
persecution.
• Article 25:
Right to a standard of living adequate
for health and wellbeing; entitlement
to assistance during motherhood and
childhood.
• Article 26:
Right to education.
• Article 27:
Right to cultural life, participation in
scientific progress; protection of
intellectual property.
• Article 28:
Entitlement to a liberal social and
international order.
• Article 29:
Duties of the individual to the
community; rights and freedoms of a
person are limited, to secure those of
others.
• Article 30:
An interpretation of the present
declaration may not be aimed at the
destruction of any of the rights and
freedoms set forth herein.
Immediate Output of UDHR around the World
• Many innocent people are being detained and kept under the violent
condition before they are proved guilty by court