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Article 1 |
Right to Equality |
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Article 2 |
Freedom from Discrimination |
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Article 3 |
Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security |
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Article 4 |
Freedom from Slavery |
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Article 5 |
Freedom from Torture and Degrading Treatment |
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Article 6 |
Right to Recognition as a Person before the Law |
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Article 7 |
Right to Equality before the Law |
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Article 8 |
Right to Remedy by Competent Tribunal |
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Article 9 |
Freedom from Arbitrary Arrest and Exile |
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Article 10 |
Right to Fair Public Hearing |
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Article 11 |
Right to be Considered Innocent until Proven Guilty |
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Article 12 |
Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence |
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Article 13 |
Right to Free Movement in and out of the Country |
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Article 14 |
Right to Asylum in other Countries from Persecution |
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Article 15 |
Right to a Nationality and the Freedom to Change It |
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Article 16 |
Right to Marriage and Family |
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Article 17 |
Right to Own Property |
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Article 18 |
Freedom of Belief and Religion |
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Article 19 |
Freedom of Opinion and Information |
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Article 20 |
Right of Peaceful Assembly and Association |
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Article 21 |
Right to Participate in Government and in Free Elections |
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Article 22 |
Right to Social Security |
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Article 23 |
Right to Desirable Work and to Join Trade Unions |
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Article 24 |
Right to Rest and Leisure |
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Article 25 |
Right to Adequate Living Standard |
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Article 26 |
Right to Education |
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Article 27 |
Right to Participate in the Cultural Life of Community |
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Article 28 |
Right to a Social Order that Articulates this Document |
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Article 29 |
Community Duties Essential to Free and Full Development |
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Freedom from State or Personal Interference in the above Rights |
Global Theme 2020-22: Human Rights
Every two years the Global Citizenship Committee selects an academic theme. The goal of the theme is to provide students and faculty with a tangible set of issues to illustrate the more abstract ideas of globalism and citizenship.
The theme can be incorporated into numerous classes, campus events, and extracurricular activities throughout the year, and everyone throughout the college is invited to interpret and explore the theme as a means of thinking and acting as global citizens. The theme for 2020-22 is Human Rights.
Spotlighting Student Work
Throughout the academic year, SMC students' work will be featured to demonstrate the various ways in which the Human Rights theme is conveyed in different disciplines.
Project Title: They, Flourishing & Marge
Name/Discipline: Celena Flippen (They/Them), Art
Celena Flippen's project includes three works of mixed media collage, They, Flourishing & Marge. The pieces express their interpretation of Human Rights: peace in one's beauty, protection of past and future, and freedom through expression. For more information please read the artist's statement, They, Flourishing & Marge, Mixed Media on Paper.
Project Title: Democracy
Name/Discipline: Stoyan Stefanov, Music
Project Title: Retiring Archaic Traditions: A Closer Look at Ritual Sacrifice in
Jackson's "The Lottery"
Name/Discipline: Rita Taylor, English
Rita Taylor's essay, Retiring Archaic Traditions: A Closer Look at Ritual Sacrifice in Jackson's "The Lottery" focuses on Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," a tale of conformity about a group of villagers who uphold an archaic tradition, even though the tradition's purpose no longer applies (and is forgotten by most people). Later in the essay, Rita ties in Ursula K Le Guin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."
Human Rights Defined
According to the United Nations, “Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.”
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
Adopted in 1948, the UDHR has been translated into more than 500 languages and -- as stated by the United Nations -- “has inspired the constitutions of many newly independent States and many new democracies.” They are as follows:
To read the articles in detail, please download the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
History of UDHR
Questions about Human Rights
Application
- When it comes to Human Rights, whose interests should be served? The local, national, or global? The individual, household, or larger group?
- What’s the difference between a human and a citizen?
- What protections are afforded to people who lack (officially or unofficially) official recognition? (E.g. refugees)
- Can a commitment to human rights co-exist with the determination to fight “terrorism?”
- To what extent do human rights extend to communities’ relation to the land?
Personal Considerations
- What do universal human rights look like in your daily life?
- What is your responsibility to uphold human rights?
- What does human rights look like in your discipline?
- How would we update the UDHR to reflect the issues of human rights today?
Famous Human Rights Quotes
"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home
– so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. ... Unless
these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. – Without concerned
citizen action to uphold them close to home, – we shall look in vain for progress
in the larger world."– Eleanor Roosevelt
"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."– Nelson Mandela
To read other famous Human Rights quotes, see 11 Top Quotes of Human Rights
Human Rights Resources
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