 |
Human Rights Education |
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On December 10, 1984 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages.
Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, display, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."
The principles within the Declaration which relate most directly to Amnesty's work are Articles 3, 5, 9, 18 and 19.
|
Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
|
|
|
Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
|
|
|
Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
|
|
|
Article 18. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion ...............
|
|
|
Article 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression .............
|
* Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
complete convention
* Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos,
Artigos 1 - 30
When AI speaks about Human Rights Education it refers to the full range of human rights as set in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the principles of the Universal Declaration that have been given legal international standards, principally:
* International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights
* International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
* Convention on the Rights of the Children
Convention on the Rights of the Children, Chinese
A Convenção dos Direitos da Criança, Portuguese
Amnesty International Macau, Tel: 853 - 301403 Fax: 853 - 301403
E-mail: admin-mc@amnesty.org
Internet: www.boes.org/ai/macau
One more Human Rights webproject by BOES.ORG
|