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Simplified Summary of the
Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
Simplified-UDHR Law Notes
Article 1: Equality and Dignity
When children are born, they are free and each should be treated in the same way. They have reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a friendly manner.
Article 2: Non-Discrimination
Everyone can claim the following rights, despite: - a different sex - a different skin colour - speaking a different language - thinking different things - believing in another religion - owning more or less - being born in another social group - coming from another country. It also makes no difference whether the country you live in is independent or not.
Article 3: Right to Life, Liberty, and Security
You have the right to live, and to live in freedom and safety.
Article 4: Prohibition of Slavery and Torture
Nobody has the right to treat you as his or her slave and you should not make anyone your slave. Nobody has the right to torture you.
Article 6: Equality before the Law
You should be legally protected in the same way everywhere, and like everyone else.
Article 7: Equality before the Law
The law is the same for everyone; it should be applied in the same way to all.
Article 8: Right to Effective Remedy
You should be able to ask for legal help when the rights your country grants you are not respected.
Article 10: Fair and Public Hearing
If you must go on trial this should be done in public. The people who try you should not let themselves be influenced by others.
Article 11: Presumption of Innocence
You should be considered innocent until it can be proved that you are guilty. If you are accused of a crime, you should always have the right to defend yourself. Nobody has the right to condemn you and punish you for something you have not done.
Article 12: Right to Privacy
You have the right to ask to be protected if someone tries to harm your good name, enter your house, open your letters, or bother you or your family without a good reason.
Article 13: Freedom of Movement
You have the right to come and go as you wish within your country. You have the right to leave your country to go to another one; and you should be able to return to your country if you want.
Article 14: Right to Asylum
If someone hurts you, you have the right to go to another country and ask it to protect you. You lose this right if you have killed someone and if you yourself do not respect what is written here.
Article 15: Right to Nationality
You have the right to belong to a country and nobody can prevent you, without a good reason, from belonging to another country if you wish.
Article 16: Right to Marriage and Family
As soon as a person is legally entitled, he or she has the right to marry and have a family. Neither the colour of your skin, nor the country you come from nor your religion should be impediments to doing this. Men and women have the same rights when they are married and also when they are separated. Nobody should force a person to marry. The Government of your country should protect your family and its members.
Article 17: Right to Property
You have the right to own things and nobody has the right to take these from you without a good reason.
help. All children have the same rights, whether or not the mother is married.
Article 26: Right to Education
You have the right to go to school and everyone should go to school. Primary schooling should be free. At school, you should be able to develop all your talents and you should be taught to get on with others, whatever their race, their religion or the country they come from. Your parents have the right to choose how and what you will be taught at school.
Article 27: Right to Participate in Cultural Life
You have the right to share in your community's arts and sciences, and in any good they do. Your works as an artist, a writer or a scientist should be protected, and you should be able to benefit from them.
Article 28: Right to a Social and International Order
To make sure that your rights will be respected, there must be an "order" that can protect them.
Article 29: Duties to the Community
You have duties towards the community within which your personality can fully develop. The law should guarantee human rights. It should allow everyone to respect others and to be respected.
Article 30: Prohibition of Destruction of Rights
No society and no human being in any part of the world should act in such a way as to destroy the rights that you have just been reading about.
