PHM-Exch> December 10: Happy Human Rights Day 2012

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Shula Koenig <pdhre at igc.org>



  Here is a short document to learn from and to integrate into your daily
lives.
  Read it out loud.

*The 30 points of dignity*

Summary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (recognizing the
humanity of others as our own)

Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal.

Article 2 Everyone is entitled to the same human rights without
discrimination of any kind.

Article 3 Everyone has the human right to life, liberty, and security.

Article 4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude.

Article 5 No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6 Everyone has the human right to be recognized everywhere as a
person before the law.

Article 7 Everyone is equal before the law and has the human right to equal
protection of the law.

Article 8 Everyone has the human right to a remedy if their human rights
are violated.

Article 9 No one shall be arrested, detained, or exiled arbitrarily.

Article 10 Everyone has the human right to a fair trial.

Article 11 Everyone has the human right to be presumed innocent until
proven guilty.

Article 12 Everyone has the human right to privacy and family life.

Article 13 Everyone has the human right to freedom of movement and
residence within the state, to leave any country and to return to one's
country.

Article 14 Everyone has the human right to seek asylum from persecution.

Article 15 Everyone has the human right to a nationality.

Article 16 All adults have the human right to marry and found a family.
Women and men have equal human rights to marry, within marriage, and at its
dissolution.

Article 17 Everyone has the human right to own property.

Article 18 Everyone has the human right to freedom of thought, conscience
and religion.

Article 19 Everyone has the human right to freedom of opinion and
expression.

Article 20 Everyone has the human right to peaceful assembly and
association.

Article 21 Everyone has the human right to take part in government of one's
country directly or through free and fair elections and access to the
public service

Article 22 Everyone has the human right to social security and to the
realization of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for
dignity.

Article 23 Everyone has the human right to work, to just conditions of
work, to protection against
  unemployment, to equal pay for equal work, to sufficient pay to ensure a
dignified            existence for one's self and one's family, and the
human right to join a trade union.

Article 24 Everyone has the human right to rest and leisure.

Article 25 Everyone has the human right to a standard of living adequate
for health and well-being, including food, clothing, housing, medical care
and necessary social services.

Article 26 Everyone has the human right to education including free and
compulsory elementary education and human rights education.

Article 27 Everyone has the human right to participate freely in the
cultural life and to share in scientific progress, as well as to protection
of their artistic, literary or scientific creations,

Article 28 Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in
which these rights can be
  realized fully.

Article 29 Everyone has duties to the community.

Article 30 None of the human rights in this Declaration can be used to
justify violating another
  human right.


--*Human rights are Universal, Indivisible, Interconnected and interrelated
*
--Democracy is the delivery system of human rights.


Prepared by : pdhre at igc.org   www.pdhre.org,
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