ALA Youth for Human Rights

Universal Declaration of the Human Rights.

1. We are all born free.                                                                 We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated                 in the same way.

2. Don‛t discriminate
These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences.

3. Right to Life
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

4. Slavery - past and present
Nobody has any right to make us a slave. We cannot make               anyone our slave.

5. Torture
Nobody has any right to hurt us or to torture us.

6. We all have the same
right to use the law

7. We are all protected
by the law the law is the same for everyone.
It must treat us all fairly.

8. Fair treatment
by fair courts we can all ask for the law to help us
when we are not treated fairly.

9. Unfair detainment?

Nobody has the right to put us in prison without a good                                reason and keep us there,

10. 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.

11. 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.

13. Freedom to move
We all have the right to go where we want in our own country and                to travel as we wish.

14. 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.

15. The right to a nationality
We all have the right to belong to a country.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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. 

23. 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.

24. The right to play
We all have the right to rest from work and to relax.

25. A bed and some food
We all have the right to a good life. Mothers and children, people who are old, un em ployed or dis abled, and all people have the right to be cared for.

26.The right to education
Education is a right. Primary school should be free. We should learn about the Unit ed Nations and how to get on with others. Our parents can choose what we learn.

27. 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.

28. 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.

30. Nobody can take away these rights and freedoms from us