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Human Rights (We are all free and equal: We are all born free. We all have…
Human Rights
- We are all free and equal: We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way.
- Don’t discriminate: These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences.
- The right to life: We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety.
- No slavery past and present: Nobody has any right to make us a slave. We cannot make anyone our slave.
- No Torture: Nobody has any right to hurt us or to torture us.
- We all have the same right to use the law: I am a person just like you!
- We are all protected by the law: The law is the same for everyone. It must treat us all fairly.
- Fair treatment by fair courts: We can all ask for the law to help us when we are not treated fairly.
- No unfair detainment: Nobody has the right to put us in prison without a good reason and keep us there, or to send us away from our country.
- The right to trial: If we are put on trial this should be in public. The people who try us should not let anyone tell them what to do.
- Innocent until proven guilty: Nobody should be blamed for doing something until it is proven. When people say we did a bad thing we have the right to show it is not true.
- The right to privacy: Nobody should try to harm our good name. Nobody has the right to come into our home, open our letters or bother us or our family without a good reason.
- Freedom to move: We all have the right to go where we want in our own country and to travel as we wish.
- The right to asylum: If we are frightened of being badly treated in our own country, we all have the right to run away to another country to be safe.
- The right to a nationality: We all have the right to belong to a country.
- Marriage and family: Every grown-up has the right to marry and have a family if they want to. Men and women have the same rights when they are married, and when they are separated.
- Your own things: Everyone has the right to own things or share them. Nobody should take our things from us without a good reason.
- Freedom of thought: We all have the right to believe in what we want to believe, to have a religion, or to change it if we want.
- Free to say what you want: We all have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people.
- Meet where you like: We all have the right to meet our friends and to work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don’t want to.
- The right to democracy: We all have the right to take part in the government of our country. Every grown-up should be allowed to choose their own leaders.
- The right to social security: We all have the right to affordable housing, medicine, education, and child care, enough money to live on and medical help if we are ill or old.
- Workers’ rights: Every grown-up has the right to do a job, to a fair wage for their work, and to join a trade union.
- The right to play: We all have the right to rest from work and to relax.
- A bed and some food: We all have the right to a good life. Mothers and children, people who are old, unemployed or disabled, and all people have the right to be cared for.
- The right to education: Education is a right. Primary school should be free. We should learn about the United Nations and how to get on with others. Our parents can choose what we learn.
- Culture and copyright: Copyright is a special law that protects one’s own artistic creations and writings; others cannot make copies without permission. We all have the right to our own way of life and to enjoy the good things that “art,” science and learning bring.
- A free and fair world: There must be proper order so we can all enjoy rights and freedoms in our own country and all over the world.
- Our responsibilities: We have a duty to other people, and we should protect their rights and freedoms.
- Nobody can take away these rights and freedoms from us.