Human Rights

Human Right #1We Are All Born Free & Equal
We are all born free

Human Right #2Don't Discriminate
These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences

Human Right #3The Right to Life
We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety
Human Right #4No Slavery
Nobody has any right to make us a slave. We cannot make anyone our slave.

Human Right #5No Torture
Nobody has any right to hurt us or to torture us

Human Right #6You Have Rights No MatterWhere You Go
We all have the same right to use the law. I am a person just like you

Human Right #7We're All Equal Before the Law
We are all protected by the law. The law is the same for everyone. It must treat us all fairly.

Human Right #8Your Human Rights Are Protected By Law
Fair treatment by fair courts. We can all ask for the law to help us when we are not treated fairly

Human Right #9No Unfair Detainment
Unfair detainment. Nobody has the right to put us in prison without a good reason and keep us there, or to send us away from our country


Human Right #10The Right to Trial
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

Human Right #11We're Always InnocentTill Proven Guilty

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

Human Right #12The Right to Privacy
The right to privacy. Nobody should try to harm our good name. Nobody has the right to come into our home, open our letters or bother us or our family without a good reason

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

Human Right #14The Right to Seek aSafe Place to Live
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

Human Right #15Right to a Nationality
The right to a nationality. We all have the right to belong to a country

Human Right #16Marriage and Family
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


Human Right #17The Right to Your Own Things
Your own things. Everyone has the right to own things or share them. Nobody should take our things from us without a good reason

Human Right #18Freedom of Thought
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

Human Right #19Freedom of Expression
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

Human Right #20The Right to Public Assembly
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

Human Right #21The Right to Democracy
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

Human Right #22Social Security
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

Human Right #23Workers' Rights
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


Human Right #24
The Right to Play
The right to play. We all have the right to rest from work and to relax.


Human Right #25
Food and Shelter for All
A bed and some food. We all have the right to a good life. Mothers and children, people who are old, unemployed or disabled, and all people have the right to be cared for

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

Human Right #27 Copyright
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

Human Right #28
A Fair and Free WorldA 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


Human Right #29 Responsibility
Our responsibilities. We have a duty to other people, and we should protect their rights and freedoms.

Human Right #30
No One Can Take AwayYour Human Rights
Nobody can take away these rights and freedoms from us