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)

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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]

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Article 29
1- Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
2- In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
3- These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

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