4/26/11 Our Hunman Rights(Mercedes&Maggie)

1. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
This is important because everyone deserves to be free.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#atop


2. “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”
This is important because everyone deserves the chance to experience life without having to worry about something bad happening.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#atop


3. “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms. “
This is important because no one deserves to die.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#atop

4. “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
This is important because everyone should be able to express their feelings about certain things.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#atop
5. (1) “Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”
(2) “Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. “
(3) “Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. “
(4) “Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.”
This is important because everyone should get to choose what they want to do in their life.

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#atop