Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Image by guzzoe via FlickrI stumbled this on Kebelle's site. He was asking if anyone was aware of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

I had the urge to google it and copy pasted the articles.
(from WIKIPEDIA)

Article 1

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

*As much as I want to believe this article, apparently, people who have the intentions of degrading a person's race, ethnicity, culture etc. do not understand this. We can't push people to understand each of our own culture or traditions. They would sometimes think of it as a negative way.

Article 2

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

**(** addition) In the blogosphere as a wholr, I believe it is quite impossible to stop bloggers who would cross our paths that we don't agree with their ideas. For some comments that I make, I REALLY MAKE SURE to read the blog of the other person who is being charged with. Like wise here in the U.S. people exercise the First Ammendment.

Article 3

Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.

** Yes, I agree to this but I find nothing wrong with the Bill for reproductive health. It is not insunuating any bad examples, just precautions. For abortion, it is a different issue that I will tackle soon. In the Philippines, judicial killings is very spread all through out.

Article 4

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

* Made me think of a story about relatives, pushing their nephews and nieces to work for them in exchange for their board and lodging. It is a sad thought on how people would act towards their own blood.

Article 5

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

*Where ever we go there would be and always will be people who believe in the saying "An eye for an eye, A tooth for a tooth." This is such an old way of settling things. Very Neanderthal. Even our newest heroes, our OFWs, some are being mistreated by their employers. They just judge them from the start and treat them like shit.. I despise those type of people. Think of it as Saddam Hussein & Adolf Hitler.

Article 6

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

** does this apply when visiting other countries? Will be tackled soon too.

Article 7

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

**this happens all the time all over the world.

Article 8

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

*Don't you hate some people from the immigration or some officers, how they discriminate people. I am not saying that all are the same just some of them.

Article 9

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

Article 10

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 criminal charge against him.

Article 11

1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 13

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14

1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
2. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15

1. Everyone has the right to a nationality.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16

1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17

1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18

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.

*I really love how my school taught us how to respect different religions and did not brainwash us about negative things.
**It will not do any harm to know the background of some one else's religion, belief, practice,worship etc. Even if it clashes with yours, try to think deeper about this. For example, if you want to go to a foreign country, you would purchase tour/guide books or Google them as well to understand the people as well as to avoid making any rude behaviors.

Article 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

*This is the freedom that everyone cherishes. This is what we all take pride in. It is our right and we should all try to exercise it in a good way. As much as we try to do it to sound positive to others, people would still think of it negatively. It is more of respecting each one's opinions and should never be ridiculed. You can not force people to look into your way. That's why we are called human beings.

Article 20

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
2. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21

1. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
2. Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
3. The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23

1. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
2. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
3. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
4. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25

1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26

1. Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

*Apparently this is article is not being exercised in our own country. When the public school is supposedly free, the principal is corrupt. We are losing a lot of good teachers in P.I due to this type of corruption. I feel sad how the innocent children can not get the quality of education ebing taught in exclusive or private schools.

Article 27

1. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29

1. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30

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.

(this is still incomplete and will follow up soon =) )

xoxo