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• Right to Freedom,
• Articles 3 and 4 provide for everyone's right to life, liberty and security
of person; prohibition of slavery, slave trade and servitude. Article 5 rules out
torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment to any
person.
• Article 6 to 11 provide for equality before the law, equal protection
against any discrimination, legal remedy, freedom from arbitrary arrest,
detention or exile, and adherence to fair legal procedure in case a person is
accused.
• Article 12 rules out arbitrary interference with an individual's privacy,
family, home or correspondence, and attacks upon his honor and reputation.
• Article 13 and 14 provide for the right to freedom of movement and
residence and the right to seek asylum from persecution in other
countries.
• Article 15 provides for the right to a nationality; Article 16
for the right to marry and found a family with the free and
full consent of the intending spouses; and Article 17 for the
right to own property.
• Article 18, 19 and 20 provide for the right to
freedom of thought, conscience and religion; the right to
freedom of opinion and expression; and the right to
freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
• Article 21 provides for the right to take part in the
government of one's country through one's chosen
representatives and the right of equal access to public
service. It also recommends that the will of the people,
expressed in periodic and genuine elections, by universal
and equal suffrage, by secret voting, shall be the basis of
authority of government. In this way this Article regards
democratic from of government as an essential feature of
human rights.
• On the other hand, Articles 22 to 26 provide for social and economic rights of
the individual. These include the right to social security, right to work, to free
choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work, equal pay
for equal work, just and favourable remuneration, right to form trade unions,
right to rest and leisure, adequate standard of living, special care and
assistance during motherhood and childhood, and right to education.
• Article 27 provides for cultural rights including the right to participate
freely in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in
scientific advancement and its benefits, and author's right to the protection
of the moral and material interests resulting from his scientific, literary or
artistic production.
• Article 28 focuses on everyone's entitlement to a social and
international order in which all these rights and freedoms can be fully
realized. This article is concerned with the sphere of application of the rights
in question.
• Finally, Article 29 and 30 focus on everyone's duties to the community
to ensure full development of his personality. And individual would be
entitled to the aforesaid rights and freedoms on the condition of recognizing
similar rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements
of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. No
state, group or person would have any right to engage in any activity
involving the destruction of any of these rights and freedoms
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