SPECIAL REPORT / ON THE STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS : The Two Sides of Humanity : The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Some highlights: * Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the security of person.

* No one shall be held in slavery or servitude.

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

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

* Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion.

* Everyone has the right to work, . . . (and) to rest and leisure, including . . . holidays with pay.

* Everyone has the right to nationality.

* 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 to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood.

* Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country. . . . The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections.

* Everyone has the right to education, . . . (which) shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.