What are the rights proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The fundamental principle underlying the rights proclaimed in the Declaration is contained in the Preamble to the Declaration, which starts by recognizing the ‘inherent dignity and the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family’. The rights proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be broadly divided into two kinds. The first refer to civil and political rights, which include: the right to life, liberty, and security of person; freedom from slavery and torture; equality before the law; protection against arbitrary arrest, detention or exile; the right to a fair trial; the right to own property; political participation; the right to marriage; the fundamental freedoms of thought, conscience and religion, opinion and expression; freedom of peaceful assembly and association; and the right to take part in the government of his / her country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. The second are economic, social and cultural rights, which re
