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Human Rights

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DÉCLARATION DES DROITS DE L’HOMME ET DU CITOYEN

[Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen]

(1789)

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UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION (UN)

(1948)

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional levels (all containing references to it in their preambles).

[from UN]

Article 14
1- Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
2- This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.