Universal Human Rights: A Summary of Key Articles

Posted on Mar 8, 2025 in Law & Jurisprudence

Universal Human Rights: Key Articles

This document summarizes key articles outlining fundamental human rights.

Core Principles

  1. Article 1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
  2. Article 2: Every person has the rights and freedoms proclaimed in this Declaration, without any distinction.
  3. Article 3: Every individual has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.
  4. Article 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude.
  5. Article 5: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
  6. Article 6: Every human being has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
  7. Article 7: All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.
  8. Article 8: Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals.
  9. Article 9: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
  10. Article 10: Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal.
  11. Article 11: Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty.
  12. Article 12: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence.
  13. Article 13: Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
  14. Article 14: Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
  15. Article 15: Everyone has the right to a nationality.
  16. Article 16: 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.
  17. Article 17: Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
  18. Article 18: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
  19. Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression.
  20. Article 20: Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
  21. Article 21: Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country.
  22. Article 22: Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security.
  23. Article 23: Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
  24. Article 24: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
  25. Article 25: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family.
  26. Article 26: Everyone has the right to education.
  27. Article 27: Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community.