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Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights

 

Article 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration

Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person

 

Article 4. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude

 

Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment

 

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

 

Article 7. All are equal before the law without any discrimination with equal protection of the law.

 

Article 8. Everyone has the right to an effective remedy

 

Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile

 

Article 10. Everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal of any criminal charge against him

 

Article 11. Everyone has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty of a criminal charge

 

Article 12. 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. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state

 

Article 14 Everyone has the right to enjoy asylum from persecution in other countries

 

Article 15. Everyone has the right to a nationality

 

Article 16 Men and women of full age have the right to marry and to found a family. 

 

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 freedom of peaceful assembly and association

 

Article 21. Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country

 

Article 22. Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security

 

Article 23. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment

 

Article 24. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure

 

Article 25. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family

 

Article 26. Everyone has the right to education

 

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

 

Article 28. Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized

 

Article 29. Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

 

Article 30. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

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The Human Rights Act 1998  -  Schedule 1 Part I - The Articles  -  Part II  First Protocol  -  Part III Sixth Protocol

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