TOPIC 7 WHEN TECHNOLOGY

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris


  10 December 1948
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights


  A common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations
• The UDHR sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected
• The UDHR has been translated into over 500 languages
• The UDHR is widely recognized as having inspired the adoption of more than seventy human rights treaties
• Rights and freedoms set forth in the UDHR

  • Life
  • Liberty
  • Security of person
  • Freedom from slavery
  • Freedom from torture
  • Recognition before the law
  • Equal protection of the law
• Article 1

  All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights
• Article 2


  Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind
• Article 3


  Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person
• Article 4


  No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms
• Article 5


  No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
• Article 6


  Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law
• Article 7


  All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law
• Member States have pledged themselves to achieve the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms
• A common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge