Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration (something said in an important way) by the United Nations General Assembly. It talks about basic human rights -- rights that all people have just because they are human. It was adopted (agreed to) by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948.
The UDHR (acronym for Universal Declaration of Human Rights) is translated into over 300 languages. This is more languages than any other document, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
[edit] Important ideas
The UDHR is broken into 30 parts or articles. Each article says one idea about human rights. Most people think these are the most important ideas:
- Everyone has a right to life, liberty, and security.
- Everyone has a right to an education.
- Everyone has a right to get a job.
- Everyone has a right to take part in cultural life--to choose a way of life.
- No person may be tortured, or treated in a cruel or unkind way.
- Everyone has a right to have ideas or opinions, to decide what is right and what is wrong, and to choose a religion.
- Everyone has a right to speak or write freely.
