Article 16 #UDHR: "Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses." Adults may marry and found a family regardless of race, nationality or religion, with equal rights in marriage and at divorce. Forced marriage breaks it. #HumanRights

Article 15 #UDHR: "Everyone has the right to a nationality." No one may be arbitrarily stripped of it or denied the right to change it. Nationality opens the door to school, healthcare, work, voting and legal protection, so States must prevent statelessness. #HumanRights

Article 14 #UDHR: "Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution." Anyone fleeing persecution can ask another country for protection and must get a fair hearing, not be turned away at the border or sent back to danger. #HumanRights

Article 13 #UDHR: "Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State" and "to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country." No State may trap people, exile them or bar them from coming home. #HumanRights

Article 12 #UDHR: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence." Your home, messages and data are yours: any search or surveillance must be lawful, necessary and proportionate. Your good name is protected too. #HumanRights

Article 11 #UDHR: "Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty." The State must prove guilt in a fair, public trial with a real defence, and no one can be punished for an act that was not a crime when committed. #HumanRights

Article 10 #UDHR: "Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal." Every person must face judges free from political pressure, know the charges, and be able to defend themselves in open court. #HumanRights

Article 9 #UDHR: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile." Authorities need a legal basis and due process to deprive anyone of liberty: no detention without charge, no secret prisons, no forcing people out of their country for dissent. #HumanRights

Article 8 #UDHR: "Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights..." A right that cannot be enforced is worth little: victims must be able to go to a court, be heard and obtain redress. #HumanRights

Article 7 #UDHR: "All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law." The same rules apply to everyone, rich or poor, and police and courts must protect all people alike, even against incitement to discrimination. #HumanRights

Article 6 #UDHR: "Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law." No one can be treated as a legal non-person: wherever you are and whatever your status, you can own property, sign contracts and go to court to defend your rights. #HumanRights

Article 5 #UDHR: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." The ban is absolute: no war or emergency can justify it. It covers police abuse and inhumane prisons, and evidence obtained by torture is never valid. #HumanRights

Article 4 #UDHR: "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." It covers forced labour, trafficking and debt bondage: States must free victims and prosecute exploiters, never punish the trapped. #HumanRights

📜 Article 3 #UDHR: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person." It is the foundation of all other rights: no one may be arbitrarily killed, detained or threatened, and States must actively protect people from violence, whoever commits it. #HumanRights

Article 2 #UDHR: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. #HumanRights

Allgemeine Erklärung der #Menschenrechte 📃 Universal Declaration of 🌏 Human Rights.
Do you know our human rights?
#UDHR #Humanrights

Democratic lawmaking requires freedom of expression, genuine elections, and a legislature functional in all policy domains. This is not had by developed/western/high-income states today, per the the governance of communications intelligence in them. #udhr #intlaw

It is better for the laws to rule than one of the citizens, so that even the guardians of the laws are obeying the laws. Thereby, citizens are under not any other citizen, but under the law.
#philosophysky #academicsky #udhr #intlaw

As it turns out, I am no Rawlsian, for I do not espouse applying the Rawlsian social welfare function. However, Natural Law is not for me either. #hdca all the way, people. One who doesn't understand the #hdca does not truly understand international law, so there's that. #udhr #uspolitics #cdnpoli