Article 1 · Dignity and equality
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.
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Article 2 · Freedom from discrimination
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms 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.
Article 3 · Life, liberty and security
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4 · Freedom from slavery
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5 · Freedom from torture
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 6 · Recognition before the law
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7 · Equality before the law
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law, and against any incitement to discrimination.
Article 8 · Effective remedy
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted by the constitution or by law.
Article 9 · Freedom from arbitrary detention
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10 · Fair trial
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of rights and obligations and of any criminal charge.
Article 11 · Presumption of innocence
Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial with all guarantees necessary for defence.
Article 12 · Privacy and family life
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.
Article 13 · Freedom of movement
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state, and the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Article 14 · Asylum
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
Article 15 · Nationality
Everyone has the right to a nationality, and no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their nationality nor denied the right to change it.
Article 16 · Marriage and family
Men and women of full age have the right to marry and found a family, with free and full consent, and the family is entitled to protection by society and the state.
Article 17 · Property
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others; no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Article 18 · Thought, conscience and religion
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including freedom to change religion or belief and to manifest it in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19 · Opinion and expression
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, including freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20 · Peaceful assembly and association
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and no one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21 · Participation in government
Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives, in periodic and genuine elections by universal and equal suffrage.
Article 22 · Social security
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realisation of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for dignity and free development of personality.
Article 23 · Work and fair pay
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work, to equal pay for equal work, to just remuneration ensuring an existence worthy of human dignity, and to form and join trade unions.
Article 24 · Rest and leisure
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25 · Adequate standard of living
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for health and well-being, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood.
Article 26 · Education
Everyone has the right to education, free at least in the elementary stages, directed to the full development of the human personality and the strengthening of respect for human rights.
Article 27 · Cultural life
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 to protection of the moral and material interests of their creations.
Article 28 · A just social order
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realised.
Article 29 · Duties to community
Everyone has duties to the community. Rights may be limited only by law, solely to secure recognition and respect for the rights of others and the just requirements of morality, public order and general welfare in a democratic society.
Article 30 · No destruction of rights
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying any right to engage in any activity aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
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