Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Written by Dr. Joni Carley

This is a fundamental document in the world of values-driven leadership, servant leadership, defining success, full spectrum leadership, triple bottom line leadership:

Here's an abbreviated version of the Universal Declaraion of Human Rights - well worth taking a few moments with:

FOR THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY MOVING FROM CHARITY TO DIGNITY  - Free from fear and free from want

Universal Declaration of Human Rights  
(Unofficial Summary)

Adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948

Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal.

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

Article 3 Everyone has the 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 or degrading treatment or punishment.

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

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

Article 8 Everyone has the right to justice.

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

Article 10 Everyone has the right to a fair trial.

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

Article 12 Everyone has the right to privacy.

Article 13 Everyone has—right  to freedom of movement to leave and return to one's country

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

Article 15 Everyone has the right to a nationality.

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

Article 17 Everyone has the right to own property.

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

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

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

Article 21 Everyone has the right to take part in government of one's country.

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

Article 23 Everyone has the 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 right to join a trade union.

Article 24  Everyone has the right to rest and leisure.

Article 25 Everyone has the 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 right to education.

Article 27 Everyone has the right to participate freely in the cultural life of the community.

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 No person, group or government has the right to destroy any of these human rights.

No one human right can violate another!

Prepared by: PDHRE, People’s movement for Human Rights Learning   www.pdhre.org