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Permalink Reply by valerie yule on December 9, 2012 at 1:57am

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/humrights.htm

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
of the United Nations

A charter of rights and a citizenship test
for every country of the world

Two summaries are set out here, so that everyone can read and understand it. 1. Very short summary 2. Short summary for citizens, schools, citizen's tests, immigrants, and everyone. 3. History Three earlier basic Charters of Rights 4. Aids to the meaning of the words. 5. Very short summary in spelling for reading without traps, and Summaries in starter spelling for beginners. 6. The short summary in beginners' spelling and in 'spelling for reading without traps', and printable version 7. Clues about 'reading without spelling traps' and starter spelling for beginners - English Spelling Rules on One Page and see Australian Citizenship and Human Rights 17 January 2008 Items not yet complete will be added later.

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Permalink Reply by Shulamith Koenig on December 9, 2012 at 9:47pm

In our hands and to read out loud -- and than discuss the meaning to our lives.. human rights as a way of life; Please see:

In your hands, a document to learn and integrate into our daily lives

                                                          Read it out loud to re imagine and re craft a meaningful change for a new future

30 points of dignity

MOVING FROM CHARITY TO DIGNITY - Free from fear and free from want

Summary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

                                                Recognizing the humanity of the other as our own

Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal.

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

Article 3 Everyone has the human 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, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

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

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

Article 8 Everyone has the human right to a remedy if their human rights are violated.

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

Article 10 Everyone has the human right to a fair trial.

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

Article 12 Everyone has the human right to privacy and family life.

Article 13 Everyone has the human right to freedom of movement and residence within the state, to         leave any country and to return to one's country.

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

Article 15 Everyone has the human right to a nationality.

Article 16 All adults have the human right to marry and found a family. Women and men have equal

             human rights to marry, within marriage, and at its dissolution.

Article 17 Everyone has the human right to own property.

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

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

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

Article 21 Everyone has the human right to take part in government of one's country directly or through free and fair elections and access to the public service         

Article 22 Everyone has the human right to social security and to the realization of the economic, social

            and cultural rights indispensable for dignity.

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

Article 24 Everyone has the human right to rest and leisure.

Article 25 Everyone has the human 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 human right to education including free and compulsory elementary

            education and human rights education.

Article 27 Everyone has the human right to participate freely in the cultural life and to share in scientific

            progress, as well as to protection of their artistic, literary or scientific creations,

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 None of the human rights in this Declaration can be used to justify violating another

              human right.

 

--Human rights are Universal, Indivisible, Interconnected and interrelated

--With equality and without discrimination for all women and men, youth and children

--Democracy as a delivery system of human rights

--All must know, own, organize, plan and act guided by human rights as a way of life.

 

Prepared by : pdhre@igc.org   www.pdhre.org,

PDHRE, People’s movement for Human Rights Learning

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Permalink Reply by Pax Populi on December 12, 2012 at 7:33pm

Thanks for sharing this. Pax

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