Article Twelve: Right to Privacy & Honour
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.
Words defined
- Arbitrary
- coming about seemingly at random or by chance; depending on individual discretion (as of a judge) and not fixed by law
- Honour
- a showing of usually merited respect; recognition
- Interference
- the act or process of interfering (taking part in the concerns of others); something that obstructs; obstruction
- Privacy
- the quality or state of being apart from company or observation; seclusion; freedom from unauthorized intrusion
Article Thirteen: Freedom of Movement
Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Words defined
- Freedom
- a state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude or confinement
- Residence
- the place where one actually lives
- State
- territory or country
Article Fourteen: Right to Asylum
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
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.
Words defined
- Asylum
- protection from arrest and extradition given especially to political refugees by a nation or an embassy
- Contrary
- a fact or condition incompatible with another; opposite
- Persecution
- the act of harassing or punishing in a manner designed to injure, grieve or afflict; to cause to suffer because of belief
- Prosecutions
- the act of bringing legal action against, for redress or punishment of a crime or violation of law
Article Fifteen: Right to a Nationality
Everyone has the right to a nationality.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
Words defined
- Deprived
- the state of being kept from possessing, enjoying or using something
- Nationality
- membership of a particular nation
Article Sixteen: Right to Marriage & Family
- 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.
- Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
- The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Words defined
- Consent
- to give approval; agree
- Dissolution
- the act or process of dissolving; termination
- Found
- to establish something
- Fundamental
- serving as a basis supporting existence or determining essential structure or function; basic
- Marriage
- the state of being united as spouses in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law
- Natural
- being in accordance with or determined by nature
- Protection
- to cover or shield from exposure, injury, damage, or destruction; guard; defend
Article Seventeen: Right to Own Property
Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Words defined
- Association
- the state of being associated; combination; relationship
- Deprived
- the state of being kept from possessing, enjoying or using something
- Property
- something owned or possessed
Article Eighteen: Freedom of Thought, Conscience & Religion
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.
Words defined
- Conscience
- the part of the mind that makes you aware of your actions as being morally right or wrong
- Freedom
- a state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty
- Manifest
- to make evident or certain by showing or displaying
- Religion
- a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs and practices
- Thought
- an opinion or belief in the mind; the power to imagine
Article Nineteen: Freedom of Opinion & Expression
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.
Words defined
- Expression
- the quality or fact of being expressive; effectively conveying meaning or feeling
- Freedom
- a state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty
- Frontiers
- a border between two countries
- Impart
- to communicate the knowledge of; disclose
- Interference
- something that obstructs or blocks; to take part in the concerns of others
- Media
- a channel or system of communication, information or entertainment
- Opinion
- a view, judgment or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter
Article Twenty: Right to Peaceful Assembly
- Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
- No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Words defined
- Assembly
- a company or collection of individuals in the same place usually for the same purpose
- Compelled
- to cause to do or occur by overwhelming pressure
- Freedom
- a state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty
- Peaceful
- untroubled by conflict, agitation or commotion; quiet; tranquil