What you need to know

17.Human Rights

What Are Human Rights?

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.

Below are some useful Human rights.

Article I

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They should act towards one another in a

Spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Furthermore, no Favor 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 supreme power or authority.

Article 3

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

Article 4

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be

Prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman 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. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation and against any action of provoking unlawful behavior or urging someone to behave unlawfully. To such discrimination.

Article 8

Everyone has the right to an effective way of solving a problem or ordering someone to make a payment for harm or damage they have caused, using a decision made in a law court for acts violating the fundamental rights.

Article 9

No one shall be subjected to arrest for personal advantages or unreasonably, detention (the act or condition of being officially forced to stay in a place) or exile (a person who is sent or kept away from their own country, etc.).

Article 10

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial court of justice, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11

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 defense.

2. No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act 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.