CHAPTER ONE
Rights
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Article I.
Every human being has the right to life, liberty and the security of
his person.
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Right to life, liberty and personal security.
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Article II.
All persons are equal before the law and have the rights and duties
established in this Declaration, without distinction as to race, sex, language,
creed or any other factor.
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Right to equality before law. |
Article III.
Every person has the right freely to profess a religious faith, and
to manifest and practice it both in public and in private.
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Right to religious freedom and worship. |
Article IV.
Every person has the right to freedom of investigation, of opinion,
and of the expression and dissemination of ideas, by any medium whatsoever.
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Right to freedom of investigation, opinion,
expression and dissemination. |
Article V.
Every person has the right to the protection of the law against abusive
attacks upon his honor, his reputation, and his private and family life.
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Right to protection of honor, personal reputation,
and private and family life. |
Article VI.
Every person has the right to establish a family, the basic element
of society, and to receive protection therefor.
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Right to a family and to protection thereof.
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Article VII.
All women, during pregnancy and the nursing period, and all children
have the right to special protection, care and aid.
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Right to protection for mothers and children.
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Article VIII.
Every person has the right to fix his residence within the territory
of the state of which he is a national, to move about freely within such
territory, and not to leave it except by his own will.
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Right to residence and movement. |
Article IX.
Every person has the right to the inviolability of his home.
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Right to inviolability of the home. |
Article X.
Every person has the right to the inviolability and transmission of
his correspondence.
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Right to the inviolability and transmission
of correspondence |
Article XI.
Every person has the right to the preservation of his health through
sanitary and social measures relating to food, clothing, housing and medical
care, to the extent permitted by public and community resources.
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Right to the preservation of health and to well-being.
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Article XII.
Every person has the right to an education, which should be based on
the principles of liberty, morality and human solidarity.
Likewise every person has the right to an education that will prepare him
to attain a decent life, to raise his standard of living, and to be a useful
member of society. The right to an education includes the right to equality
of opportunity in every case, in accordance with natural talents, merit
and the desire to utilize the resources that the state or the community
is in a position to provide. Every person has the right to receive, free,
at least a primary education.
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Right to education. |
Article XIII.
Every person has the right to take part in the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy the arts, and to participate in the benefits that result
from intellectual progress, especially scientific discoveries.
He likewise has the right to the protection of his moral and material interests
as regards his inventions or any literary, scientific or artistic works
of which he is the author.
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Right to the benefits of culture. |
Article XIV.
Every person has the right to work, under proper conditions, and to
follow his vocation freely, in sofar as existing conditions of employment
permit.
Every person who works has the right to receive such remuneration as will,
in proportion to his capacity and skill, assure him a standard of living
suitable for himself and for his family.
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Right to work and to fair remuneration. |
Article XV.
Every person has the right to leisure time, to wholesome recreation,
and to the opportunity for advantageous use of his free time to his spiritual,
cultural and physical benefit.
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Right to leisure time and to the use thereof.
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Article XVI.
Every person has the right to social security which will protect him
from the consequences of unemployment, old age, and any disabilities arising
from causes beyond his control that make it physically or mentally impossible
for him to earn a living.
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Right to social security. |
Article XVII.
Every person has the right to be recognized everywhere as a person having
rights and obligations, and to enjoy the basic civil rights.
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Right to recognition of juridical personality
and civil rights. |
Article XVIII.
Every person may resort to the courts to ensure respect for his legal
rights. There should likewise be available to him a simple, brief procedure
whereby the courts will protect him from acts of authority that, to his
prejudice, violate any fundamental constitutional rights.
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Right to a fair trial. |
Article XIX.
Every person has the right to the nationality to which he is entitled
by law and to change it, if he so wishes, for the nationality of any other
country that is willing to grant it to him.
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Right to nationality. |
Article XX.
Every person having legal capacity is entitled to participate in the
government of his country, directly or through his representatives, and
to take part in popular elections, which shall be by secret ballot, and
shall be honest, periodic and free.
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Right to vote and to participate in government.
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Article XXI.
Every person has the right to assemble peaceably with others in a formal
public meeting or an informal gathering, in connection with matters of
common interest of any nature.
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Right of assembly. |
Article XXII.
Every person has the right to associate with others to promote, exercise
and protect his legitimate interests of a political, economic, religious,
social, cultural, professional, labor union or other nature.
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Right of association. |
Article XXIII.
Every person has a right to own such private property as meets the essential
needs of decent living and helps to maintain the dignity of the individual
and of the home.
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Right to property. |
Article XXIV.
Every person has the right to submit respectful petitions to any competent
authority, for reasons of either general or private interest, and the right
to obtain a prompt decision thereon.
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Right of petition. |
Article XXV.
No person may be deprived of his liberty except in the cases and according
to the procedures established by pre-existing law.
No person may be deprived of liberty for nonfulfillment of obligations
of a purely civil character.
Every individual who has been deprived of his liberty has the right to
have the legality of his detention ascertained without delay by a court,
and the right to be tried without undue delay or, otherwise, to be released.
He also has the right to humane treatment during the time he is in custody.
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Right of protection from arbitrary arrest. |
Article XXVI.
Every accused person is presumed to be innocent until proved guilty.
Every person accused of an offense has the right to be given an impartial
and public hearing, and to be tried by courts previously established in
accordance with pre- existing laws, and not to receive cruel, infamous
or unusual punishment.
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Right to due process of law. |
Article XXVII.
Every person has the right, in case of pursuit not resulting from ordinary
crimes, to seek and receive asylum in foreign territory, in accordance
with the laws of each country and with international agreements.
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Right of asylum. |
Article XXVIII.
The rights of man are limited by the rights of others, by the security
of all, and by the just demands of the general welfare and the advancement
of democracy.
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Scope of the rights of man. |
CHAPTER TWO
Duties
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Article XXIX.
It is the duty of the individual so to conduct himself in relation to
others that each and every one may fully form and develop his personality.
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Duties
to society.
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Article XXX.
It is the duty of every person to aid, support, educate and protect
his minor children, and it is the duty of children to honor their parents
always and to aid, support and protect them when they need it.
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Duties toward children and parents. |
Article XXXI.
It is the duty of every person to acquire at least an elementary education.
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Duty to receive instruction. |
Article XXXII.
It is the duty of every person to vote in the popular elections of the
country of which he is a national, when he is legally capable of doing
so.
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Duty to vote. |
Article XXXIII.
It is the duty of every person to obey the law and other legitimate
commands of the authorities of his country and those of the country in
which he may be.
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Duty to obey the law |
Article XXXIV.
It is the duty of every able-bodied person to render whatever civil
and military service his country may require for its defense and preservation,
and, in case of public disaster, to render such services as may be in his
power.
It is likewise his duty to hold any public office to which he may be elected
by popular vote in the state of which he is a national.
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Duty to serve the community and the nation. |
Article XXXV.
It is the duty of every person to cooperate with the state and the community
with respect to social security and welfare, in accordance with his ability
and with existing circumstances.
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Duties with respect to social security and welfare.
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Article XXXVI.
It is the duty of every person to pay the taxes established by law for
the support of public services.
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Duty to pay taxes. |
Article XXXVII.
It is the duty of every person to work, as far as his capacity and possibilities
permit, in order to obtain the means of livelihood or to benefit his community.
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Duty to work. |
Article XXXVIII.
It is the duty of every person to refrain from taking part in political
activities that, according to law, are reserved exclusively to the citizens
of the state in which he is an alien.
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Duty to refrain from political activities in
a foreign country. |
