All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
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.
Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each [country]. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression...[including the] freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion...[including the] freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this declaration can be fully realized.
It is essential...that human rights should be protected by the rule of law.
Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home, or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Recognition of the inherent dignity and...the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the state.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government...[and] shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections...[with] universal and equal suffrage...by secret vote....
