The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Is The Law
Subtitle: A Guide To U.D.H.R. Articles In Treaties Ratified by the U.S.
Publisher: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780913876268
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION:; title: How the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Has Become the Law of the United States...............i; title: PART ONE:; title: UDHR ARTICLES IN TREATIES RATIFIED BY U.S. .....................................................................4; title: PART TWO:; title: UDHR ARTICLES IN TREATIES SIGNED BY U.S. BUT NOT YET RATIFIED..........................................51; title: Article 1. All are born free and equal in dignity and rights; should act in the spirit of brotherhood..5,52; title: Article 2. Everyone is entitled to all rights without distinction as to race, colour, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.....................7,55; title: Article 3. Right to life, liberty and security of person..........9,57; title: Article 4. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude..........11,58; title: Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment..............................................................12, 60; title: Article 6.  Right to recognition as a person before the law....13, 61; title: Article 7. Right to equal protection against discrimination and incitement to such discrimination...14, 62; title: Article 8. Right to an effective remedy by competent national tribunal..................16, 63; title: Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile..............18, 64; title: Article 10. Right to fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal...20, 65; title: Article 11. Right to public trial, presumption of innocence, no ex post facto charges..21, 67; title: Article 12. Protection of privacy, family, home, correspondence, against attacks on honour and reputation....24, 68; title: Article 13. Right to movement and residence; to leave and return to one's country...25, 69; title: Article 14. Right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution....27; title: Article 15. Right to a nationality and to change nationality...28, 70; title: Article 16. Right of adults to marry, regardless of race, nationality, or religion, to found a family, which is entitled to protection of society and the state......29, 72; title: Article 17. Right to own property...................................31, 74; title: Article 18. Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, to practice alone and with others....32, 75; title: Article 19. Freedom of opinion and expression, to seek, recieve, impart information regardless of frontiers...................34, 76; title: Article 20. Freedom of assembly and association.....35, 77; title: Article 21. Right to take part in government equally; equal access to public service; universal and equal suffrage to elect free government........37, 78; title: Article 22. Right to social security and economic, social and cultural rights.......39, 79; title: Article 23.  Right to work, to just and favorable remuneration, equal pay for equal work, to join trade unions......40, 80; title: Article 24. Right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay........42, 83; title: Article 25. Right to standard of living for self and family including food, housing, medical care, social services; motherhood and childhood entitled to special care and assistance, in or out of wedlock......43, 84; title: Article 26. Right to free education, selected by parents.......44, 87; title: Article 27. Right to participate in cultural life of community, to enjoy the arts, to share in scientific advancement....46,91; title: 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......48, 93; title: Article 29.  Duties to the community in which the free and full development of personality is possible.....49, 94; title: Article 30. Nothing...may be interpreted as implying for any State...any right to engage in any activity...aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.......50, 95; title: APPENDIX; title: 1.  Code of Hammurabi......96; title: 2. The Magna Carta..........97; title: 3. British Bill of Rights......100; title: 4. French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.....105; title: 5. U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and Amendments.................107; title: 6. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's Message to Congress on a Second Economic Bill of Rights...107; title: 7. Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights .....110; title: INDEX