PREAMBLE

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

 

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Article 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.
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Article 2.

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. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.
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Article 3.

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

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

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

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

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
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Article 8.

Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
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Article 9.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
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Article 10.

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
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Article 11.

(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
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Article 12.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
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Article 13.

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
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Article 14.

(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
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Article 15.

(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
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Article 16.

(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
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Article 17.

(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
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Article 18.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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Article 19.

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.
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Article 20.

(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
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Article 21.

(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
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Article 22.

Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
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Article 23.

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable 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 favourable 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.
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Article 24.

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
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Article 25.

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
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Article 26.

(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
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Article 27.

(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
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Article 28.

Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
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Article 29.

(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
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Article 30.

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

SirShymex:

You honestly don't know what the fecky fvck you're talking about. Once you start promoting it, more people are going to get involved in it and that's where the problem lies. If homosexuality were to be natural, then your POV might be legit. However, most times, people choose to be gay - and once you start looking at how much of an epidemic HIV is in the LGBT community is, then you'd be worried about how it might spiral out of control in a continent where nothing works.

For fvck sake, Africa can't deal with HIV at the moment, now imagine what's going to happen to the continent, with the rate in which HIV spreads in the LGBT community.

You are Super Daft.Hope you know that

You mean to say the whites that supoorted the blacks for equality and freedom in America and South Africa became black .I need some of that weed you been smoking bro.

In a million years,you do know that HIV prevalence in homosexuals is never going to match up with that in heterosexuals.You have HIV in your country already and the gays are not the only victims,in fact straights are higher host at 95%,prove me wrong.

Think before you type[/b].

vislabraye:


Homosexuality is an anormally no matter how reasonable the argument may sound. If you want to legalise it then, bestiality should be legalised.

The thing here is that the homosexuals have become bullies to force down their beliefs down the throat of everyone. No one is born gAy and I don't think you would want your child to be gay, if you do, goodluck to you.

How many gay persons have you met in your life to come to this conclusion.

Just cause all trees grow outside does not mean they all need sun.No one is born gay cause you know nothing about gays.

Finally,breath of air,i meant Fresh Air has reached the borders of Uganda.

Nigerians follow accord.

firstEVA: you are gay

Here she comes,Psyche1 patient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dYlvdLdK9w

Pentatonix-Say Something cover.

masonkz: Nope, we are rather busy deliberating on what people do in their bedrooms.





A railway station that beats our Airports.

I hope you know you're a comic relief

Why is British media not reporting this yet,none comes up on google search.

I support this,people like FirstEva,MrinSanity,VirginFinder,50calibre and a host of others should be confined there.

Nice,the men have 9 medals,the women have 16.Way to go Nigeria,still standing at No8 right after Republic of South Africa.Nigeria with a total of 25medals.

Uggghhn ,Say what.From his statement,he mixed with friends he couldn't help mixing with,that's what made him gay.So he was never actually gay from scratch,he turned gay,now he's turned back straight religiously.
Bet he as this has dinner every night.

Ishilove:
I agree. The problem now is they want to carry it outside. Imagine a world where I will be enjoying some gangster PDA with my man, and right next to us, two muscular men are doing the same thing.

*pukes*

Don't imagine it anymore,its here already,nobody has died.The whites in America didn't die after the abolishment of racism,you obviously won't sweat a bit when two grown male adults publicly display affection without harrassment or reproach.Live your life,let others live theirs.

Nigerians at it again.When it comes to issues of homosexuality,they condemn like demi-gods and talk ignorantly like they skipped classes all their lives.You guys wake up.
It may not look like oppression to you,it is oppression that may one day haunt you too.
#Respect#Equality#Love#NotoOppression#Brothers&Sisters#TogetherNationIsBuilt.

SimonAndal:
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It's weird, is all.

k.

She looks 12.

SimonAndal:
I'm curious, MiguelMi6, but why are you speaking for Hezron? It's not really rocket science to log on and post a comment every once in a while, is it? Just curious.

Hezron is a nairaland addict,whatever makes him log in means he wouldn't be leaving anytime soon,he promised himself to take a serious break from the online world.It's pertinent most times I relay some messages from him especially when we talk about nairaland.All through when his mother and fiance where in hospital,I was the only eye that allowed you guys no what's up.It's more like my habit nowadays though.

Da Bleep with the conspiracies.What is clearly homosexual cross-dresser?

Gudintent: Howdy peeps, what have I missed

Hey Miguel how are you keeping, my love To Hez he is surely missed.

Masonkz how are you doing bro? Hope you being good, what am I reading about an engagement and moi didn't get an invite ... Ur explanation berra be good happy for you swt.

GSKing ma'am good to see your handle around again, it sure has been quiet without the good ol gang


So y'all know, that was typed up sometime last month when NL came back up, but for some reason I was not able to post

Seems I can now

Been a while.Am sure you're doing great.Missed your presence on the forum.Hezron is cool thanks for asking.Welcome back.

I don't want to say it,but I knew it@Seun action.He keeps trying to play modest

Humblebloke:
Ok Mr wise.... U knw wat's worse than a fool? a proud person who thinks he is right!
There is little hope for the scornful man, one too proud to be corrected... How will you help him when he s convinced he has no faults... Dere's stil hope tho'

Alright,you've spoken,anything else you want to add

CyrusLevi: Where are you and what are you doing now?

Home,preparing for Church,let's video chat.

Hamas should please embrace peace or else Its going to be a justifiable genocide of all Palestinians.#Pray4Palestine.

Humblebloke:
smd... GENETIC DISORDER

I'll put u in my prayers tho... Dat's d best i can do

The prayer of a fool availeth nothing.

CyrusLevi: I have one,you need one cause hate takes away life,okay.

Stop wasting your time trying to explain to a fool.When your argue with fools,you become a fool for arguing with a fool.Please let them suffer in ignorance.

CyrusLevi: English darling This is Nairaland.

Sorry Cyrus,love doing that.

firstEVA: shut up mumu, no body is born gay! Its a bad behavior which can be unlearnt.

Aposto que seus todos os meninos de sua familia sao hossexuais,bissexuais ou transgeneros.Voce sao cobra venenosa qua precisa reabilitacao.Poder voce nao morrer de parada cardiaca causa dos homossexuais.

masonkz:


Lawd have mercy.

Laughing out loud .Nigerians are endowed though,Uche has a big fat one,it scares his fiance everytime .I've spoken out too loud