Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Article 2 Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in the Declaration, without distinction of any kind.
Article 3 Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Article 4 No one shall be held in slavery and servitude
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.
Article7 All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection by the law.
Article 8 Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him/her by the constitution or the law.
Article 9 No one shall be subject to arbitrary arrest., detention or exile.
Article 10 Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal.
Article 11 Everyone charged with a penal offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Article 12 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his or her honour or reputation.
Article 13 Everyone has the right to freedom of movement.
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
Article 16 men and women....have the right to marry and have a family.
Article 17 Everyone has the right to own property
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.
Article 20 Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
Article 21 Everyone has the right to take a part in the government of their country.
Article 22 Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to the realization of economic, social and cultural rights.
Article 23 Everyone has the right to work....Everyone has the right to form and join trade unions.
Article 24 Everyone has the right to rest and leisure.
Article 25 Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for... health and well - being.
Article 26 Everyone has the right to education.
Article 27 Everyone has the right freely to 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 can be fully realized.
Article 29 Everyone has duties to the community.
Article 30 Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying...any right to engage in any activity....aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth.
Amnesty International Canada
UN Commission on Human Rights
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/un/chr/Chr95/thematic/39.htm
On International Law
This is hard to get, one has to traverse a university screen process
http://www.rider.edu/users/phanc/courses/215-web/215/lectu/intl-law.htm
United Nations 1998 Conference on Terrorism
http://www.usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/argentin.htm
US Advisory on Legal Affairs
http://usis.usemb.se/terror/rpt1998/intro.html
Canadas' Role on International Conventions on Terrorism
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/english/foreignp/terrorism/anti-t1e.htm
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