Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person
Declaration of the Basic Human Rights
Article 1: All human beings are born equal in dignity and rights.
Article 2: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration without
distinction of any kind, such as color, sex, language, religion, political beliefs and the like.
Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security as a person.
Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude. Likewise, slavery and the slave trade shall be
prohibited in all their forms.
Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or
punishment.
Article 6: Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Article 7: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of
the law.
Article 8: Everyone has the right to effective remedy by the competent national tribunal for acts violating
the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by the law.
Article 9: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 10: Everyone is entitled to full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and
impartial tribunal.
Article 11: Everyone charge with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proven
guilty according to law in a public trial.
Article 12: no one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his family, home or correspondence or
to attacks upon his honor 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 seek and enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
Article 15: Everyone has the right to a nationality and therefore should be denied with the right to change
nationality.
Article 16: Men and women of legal age have the right to marry and to found a family.
Article 17: Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
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; this includes freedom to hold
opinions without interference and to seek, receive impart information and any ideas through any media.
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, directly or through freely
chosen representatives.
Article 22: Everyone has the right to social security.
Article 23: Everyone has the right to work.
Article 24: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure.
Article 25: Women, children, persons with disability have the right to a standard living and are entitled to
special care and assistance.
Article 26: Everyone has the right to education.
Article 27: Everyone has the right to freely 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.
Article 29: In the exercise of rights and freedom, everyone shall be subject only to limitations determined
by the law.
Article 30: Nothing in the declaration may be interpreted as implying for any state, group or person to
perform any act aimed at the destruction of any rights and freedoms set forth herein.
