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Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 3
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. b
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- 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.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 4
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- 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.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (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.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- 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.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- THE GOVERNMENTS REPRESENTED AT THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES,
- Body
- Regional bodies: Organization of American States
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- CONSIDERING:
- Body
- Regional bodies: Organization of American States
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- The governments represented at the Ninth International Conference of American States,
- Body
- Regional bodies: Organization of American States
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (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
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 3
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (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.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 2
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- That the majority of the American Republics, inspired by lofty principles of justice, have granted civil rights to women;
- Body
- Regional bodies: Organization of American States
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- That the principle of equality of human rights for men and women is contained in the Charter of the United Nations,
- Body
- Regional bodies: Organization of American States
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- To authorize their respective Representatives, whose Full Powers have been found to be in good and due form, to sign the following articles:
- Body
- Regional bodies: Organization of American States
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- The American States agree to grant to women the same civil rights that men enjoy.
- Body
- Regional bodies: Organization of American States
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Civil Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- The present Convention shall be open for signature by the American States and shall be ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional procedures. The original instrument, the Spanish, English, Portuguese and French texts of which are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, which shall transmit certified copies to the Governments for the purpose of ratification. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, which shall notify the signatory governments of the said deposit. Such notification shall serve as an exchange of ratifications.
- Body
- Regional bodies: Organization of American States
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- That Resolution XX of the Eighth International Conference of American States expressly declares:
- Body
- Regional bodies: Organization of American States
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women 1948, para. undefined
- Document type
- Regional treaty
- Paragraph text
- That women have the right to political treatment on the basis of equality with men;
- Body
- Regional bodies: Organization of American States
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. g
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, para. 1
- Document type
- Declaration / Confererence outcome document
- Paragraph text
- (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
- Body
- United Nations General Assembly
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 1948
Paragraph