I am not sure we all really know what’s contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
I don’t remember being taught this at school, do you?
And as a human walking on this planet, I should know right? It should be part of my education to understand this declaration and know what my rights are, indeed the rights of my fellow human being too.
In fact I believe it is fundamentally the most important document we should all have in our possession and we don’t!
How can this be correct? Is it only the domain of lawyers, judges and maybe governments who should understand this?
I would suggest that governments do not. I never hear anyone speaking about it, our locally elected member of parliament doesn’t speak about it, surely anyone in government should take an oath to say that they will abide by it?
You can download it here.
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
Read it, understand it, know your rights, after all you are human.
Here’s a shortened version by Amnesty International.
Know your rights!