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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
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- Civil & Political Rights
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- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
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- All
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- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
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- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
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- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
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- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
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- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
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- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
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- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 4
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- (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
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- United Nations General Assembly
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- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
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- Civil & Political Rights
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- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
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- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
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- (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 3
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- (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
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- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
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- Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 3
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- (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
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- (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
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