We Did Not Arrive at This Point Overnight or with Today's Headline Slant or Censor

Hundreds of thousands—MILLIONS—dead, wounded, displaced, terrorized peoples, all kinds of infrastructures utterly destroyed; and USA/Western individuals and entities offer Platitudes and Propaganda, and relentless Transcontinental Trafficking in and black-marketeering of lethal weaponry.

We didn’t get here over night

BACKGROUND

Post World War II Razing of peoples, cultures and domestic and regional relations, “The Nakba” (“Catastrophe”) in late 1947 into 1948 following the United Nations in cooperation with Imperialist and acquiescent powers—discounting existing populations—partitioned “Mandatory Palestine,” created a state called Israel, and “realigned the borders of the Middle East.”

“Many Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes never returned to historic Palestine (“much of which is now the modern-day state of Israel”). In the seventy-plus years that followed (so-called post-war years but years of continuous USA-global/USA-proxy incursions and invasions and occupations and provocations and reckless breaches of sovereignty), millions of the Palestinian descendants (IN THEIR HOMELAND) were (are) reduced to living in “refugee camps in Gaza, the West Bank and surrounding countries.”

JABALIA “is the largest of the Gaza Strip’s eight refugee camps, located north of Gaza City.” Most of the people subsisting in this camp had fled their villages in southern Palestine after the 1948 Great Powers enabled Israeli war.

The Deciders

October 24, 1945 – present (October 2024) and continuing
United Nations Security Council - Current Permanent and Non-Permanent Member States

• Non-Council Member States: more than 50 United Nations Member States have never been Members of the Security Council.

• A State which is a Member of the United Nations but not of the UN Security Council may participate (but is not allowed a vote) in UNSC discussions—when the UNSC “considers that country’s interests are affected.”

• Both Members and non-members of the United Nations, if they are parties to a dispute being considered by the UNSC, “may be invited” to take part (though prohibited from casting a vote) in the UNSC discussions. The UNSC “sets the conditions for participation by a non-member State.”

Permanent Members (5) 

People’s Republic of China

French Republic

Russian Federation

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

United States of America

Non-permanent Members (10)

Elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly

People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria (2025)

Republic of Ecuador (2024)

Cooperative Republic of Guyana (2025)

Japan (2024)

Republic of Malta (2024)

Republic of Mozambique (2024)

Republic of Korea (ROK, South Korea) (2025)

Republic of Sierra Leone (2025)

Republic of Slovenia (2025)

Swiss Confederation (Switzerland) (2024)

https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/content/current-members

 

TODAY

JABALIA (Northern Gaza) is still under siege: “55,000” people have been displaced and are “stranded, with water and food running out.” 

More than twenty people in the camp died when a missile hit the school where they were taking shelter. Of the ten hospitals, only three are operational, highly insufficient capacity. More than ten thousand pregnant women lack antenatal (prenatal) care. 

Belligerents are blocking medical and humanitarian assistance (reported by Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator).

TODAY’s News Not Making Major News Outlets’ Front Pages

Diplomat Riyad H. Mansour Permanent Observer of Palestine Representative to UN (Palestinian - American)

“The Palestinian and Lebanese people are paying the price for (the Belligerent’s) impunity.” This is “not war” but “crimes (that) must be stopped…, (and) … stopped now.” In the face of the “monstrosity” unfolding in northern Gaza, “silence and inaction are not an option.”

“We are not powerless. This (UN Security) Council is not powerless. These United Nations are not powerless. The international community is not powerless.” Acquiesce or failure to act “is complicity and surrender….” “The Palestinian people enduring hell did not surrender.” “Neither should you.” “It is time to act.”

Ambassador Amar Bendjama Algeria’s UN Permanent Representative

Belligerents’ contempt for international judiciary processes, UNSC resolutions, and “human decency” is manifest in their blockading of crossing points, ramped up restrictions on access, their “use of starvation as tool of warfare.” The “lives of Palestinian civilians are in jeopardy”; and the “time has come” for the UN Security Council to take ‘decisive action’ to put an end to (Belligerent) aggression against Gaza.” https://pmnewyork.mfa.gov.dz/embassys-activities/gaza-it-is-time-for-un-security-council-to-take-decisive-action-to-end-zionist-aggression

H.E. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Permanent Representative of Cooperative Republic of Guyana to the United Nations, at Security Council Briefing on ‘The Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question’” (statement)

“The International Court of Justice has unequivocally declared the illegality of (the Belligerent’s) ongoing occupation and the General Assembly has demanded that (same) bring an end to its unlawful occupation of the Palestinian territories. It is therefore illegal for the … government to move to annex territory in the Gaza Strip.”

“There is a veritable genocide taking place in Gaza. The International Court of Justice ordered (the belligerent) to take actions to prevent genocide in Gaza in accordance with that Member State’s obligations under the Geneva Conventions. However, (the belligerent) continues, blatantly, to disregard the ICJ’s orders. In this circumstance, consideration must be given to how the Council could facilitate implementation of the ICJ orders. The floodgates have already opened in Gaza and this Council must agree to pull the plug and stand up for Palestinians.”

“This Council has the mandate and responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. We have tools at our disposal to carve out solutions to end this war. Let us use them.

“When legally binding resolutions and countless appeals to conscience and morality fail to change behavior, the hand of justice must be applied.”

Joyce Msuya (United Republic of Tanzania) UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator

“The world has seen the images of patients and displaced persons, sheltering near Al-Aqsa Hospital, burning alive…; others, including women and children, are suffering the excruciating pain of severe life-changing burns.”

Sources

Meetings Coverage UN Security Council 9750TH MEETING (AM) SC/15854 16 October 2024 “Ending Atrocities in Gaza Cannot Happen through Words, but ‘through Urgent, Unequivocal Action,’ Senior Humanitarian Official Tells Security Council” https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15854.doc.htm

“Statement delivered by H.E. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations, at Security Council Briefing on ‘The Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question’” October 16, 2024,

Cooperative Republic of Guyana https://www.minfor.gov.gy/un-security-council/statement-delivered-he-carolyn-rodrigues-birkett-permanent-representative-14

Le Monde INTERNATIONAL/ ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR October 19, 2024, at 11:22 pm (Paris) “The UN warns that Palestinians are enduring ‘unspeakable horrors’ in north Gaza: ‘Appalling news from northern Gaza where Palestinians continue to endure unspeakable horrors under siege by Israeli forces,’ the UN’s acting humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya said on X, Saturday. ‘These atrocities must stop.’” Le Monde with AFP https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/10/19/the-un-warns-that-palestinians-are-enduring-unspeakable-horrors-in-north-gaza_6729886_4.html#

People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, Permanent Mission of Algeria to the UN October 16, 2024— NEW YORK (United Nations) — “Algeria’s UN permanent representative, Ambassador Amar Bendjama, said Wednesday in New York that ‘the time has come’ for the UN Security Council to take a ‘decisive action’ to put an end to the Zionist aggression against Gaza as the lives of the Palestinian civilians is in jeopardy.” https://pmnewyork.mfa.gov.dz/embassys-activities/gaza-it-is-time-for-un-security-council-to-take-decisive-action-to-end-zionist-aggression

Middle East Eye 2019 “What is the Nakba? Day of catastrophe for Palestinians, explained: The displacement and exodus of the Palestinian population has fuelled tension for decades” MEE staff May 9, 2019 https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-is-nakba-palestine-israel-conflict-explained-1948

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BREAK FREE of Chamber of Echoes—

Hear! Hear!

“Today, the very foundations of the international legal order—strategic stability and the UN-centric system of international politics—are put to the test.” 

    “We will not be able to resolve mounting conflicts unless we understand the root causes of conflicts…; and restore faith in our ability… to unite … for the common good, and justice for all.” (excerpt from UNSC Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov) 

    The exclusionist and capricious “… notorious ‘rules-based order’ … presents a direct threat to multilateralism and international peace.” 

Illegal sanctions, numerous protectionist measures, restrictions on access to technology directly contradict genuine multilateralism and create serious obstacles to achieving the goals of the United Nations development agenda.

Talk and more Talk 

    For well over a quarter century men and women meeting in places from Brazil to South Africa to the United States of America have talked about the world’s most populous nations and peoples’ languishing in want for a few nations and their holders of power and influence to end to their selfishness, plunder, and aggression. 

    

    In 1992, more than 178 countries met in beautifully exotic Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and signed on to talk about “a comprehensive plan of action to build a global partnership for sustainable development to improve human lives and protect the environment.” 

    In 2000, UN Member States meeting in the fashionable New York City home of Wall Street signed on to talk “of eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.” The latest talk of an end date to human want and suffering is 2030. 

    The focused talk has been around “17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” calling on developed and developing countries to cooperate in “ending poverty and other deprivations” together with taking decisive actions to “improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.”

17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.	Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries.
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.	Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.	Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.	Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.	Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.	Goal 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.	Goal 16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all.	Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.

    “… Major fundamental changes are necessary in other institutes of global governance if we want them to work to the benefit of all,” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. “This primarily concerns the United Nations Organization, which remains the embodiment of multilateralism against all the odds, with unique and universal legitimacy and universally recognized broad competencies.”

    But strengthening the “foundations of multipolarity” requires active support “not only by the United Nations;” but also “by other international organizations (including the ‘Group of Twenty’ where all countries of the Global Majority and the West are represented) ….” Also important are the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s interactions (representing different regions and civilizations) “… based on equality, mutual respect, consensus and mutually accepted compromises”— “the golden standard of multilateral cooperation involving great powers.” Regional associations (including the CIS, the CSTO, the EAEU, ASEAN, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Arab League, the African Union and CELAC) have practical significance for the development of multipolarity.”

 

CIS - Commonwealth of Independent States; CSTO - Collective Security Treaty Organization; EAEU or EEU - Eurasian Economic Union; ASEAN - Association of Southeast Asian Nations; GCC - Gulf Cooperation Council; The Arab League - formerly League of Arab States; AU - The African Union; CELAC - Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños or Community of Latin American and Caribbean States)

    

Together with the potential of the United Nations, Lavrov said, “…it is important to develop multifaceted ties between these associations….” The United Nations is comprised of (from 1945) fifty-one Founding Members and 193 current Member States. https://www.un.org/en/library/unms.

Foreign Minister Lavrov concludes

    First and foremost is the necessity of reinstating “professional diplomacy, the culture of dialogue, the ability to listen and hear and to retain the channels of crisis communications… (bearing in mind that the) … lives of millions of people depend on the ability of politicians and diplomats to formulate something like a common perception of the future.”

    With its UN Charter as “our foothold” and “everyone, without exception, honor[ing] the letter and spirit of the Charter…, the body Nations “… will be able to overcome current disagreements and to reach consensus on most issues….”

“Let us work together in the interests of launching the history of genuine multilateralism that reflects the entire wealth of cultural and civilizational diversity of the world’s nations.”

“We invite everyone to join …” in “completely honest discussion.”

Source

“Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the UN Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order” New York City, USA, July 16, 2024 (Foreign policy News The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation 1342-16-07-2024) https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1962040/

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Mercenary’s Long Violent Plunge of USA from Soldier’s Ideal

Fall from Ike through W’s Bolton, Orangeman’s Pompeo

Edited, Excerpted from 

Dwight David Eisenhower’s 1953 Inaugural Address 

“How far have we come in man’s long pilgrimage from darkness toward the light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?”

[M]an’s power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages… Yet the promise of this life is imperiled by the very genius that has made it possible. Nations amass wealth. Labor sweats to create—and turns out devices to level not only mountains but also cities. Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.”

“We know… that we are linked to all free peoples not merely by a noble idea but by a simple need. … For all our own material might …, we need for (our) farms and factories vital materials and products of distant lands. … Manifest in the commerce of peace (is) this basic law of interdependence ….” We are persuaded by necessity and by belief that the strength of all free peoples lies in unity; their danger, in discord.”  We are pleading our just cause before the bar of history …, guided by certain fixed principles.…

Statesmanship should be the first task in developing strength that will deter forces of aggression; and promote conditions of peace.

Never try to placate an aggressor with false and wicked bargain, trading honor for security.

The firm duty… of every free citizen everywhere (is) to place the cause of one’s country before the comfort, the convenience of oneself.

Never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic institutions—honor the identity and the special heritage of each nation in the world.

Strive to help “proven friends of freedom”—whose needs and capacities have been assessed realistically— “to achieve their own security and well-being;” and “count upon them to assume, within the limits of their resources, their full and just burdens in the common defense of freedom.”

Impoverishment of any single people in the world means danger to the well-being of all other peoples…;” (thus) “we shall strive to foster everywhere—and to practice ourselves—policies that courage productivity and profitable trade.” “[W]ithin the framework of the United Nations …, we hope to help strengthen such special bonds the world over.” … We respect the United Nations (and) shall strive to make it not merely an eloquent symbol but an effective force: the living representation of all people’s hope and never to be compromised quest for an honorable peace.

“We hold all continents and peoples in equal regard and honor.  

“We reject any insinuation that one race or another, one people or another, 

is in any sense inferior or expendable.”

Far from “Ike”

Plunge into the Abyss

Mercenary-made Manifesto

Relentless Inhumanity to Man

Men (and women) investors and abusers ensure enormous and sustained wealth, power and profit for themselves and their incestuous society.

Someone has coined a “Doctrine” of the USA War Industry which is executed at home and abroad; against American inhabitants, from the mountains to the seas; and flung far and wide against the planet: against peoples and nations and nature itself.

Doctrinal syllabus

• Oversimplification (propaganda, manipulation, instill ignorance and inferior education)
• Polarization (demonization, divide, blame)
• Disinformation (harness media and technological personalities and mechanisms to plant and spread colossal untruths)

Mercenaries, Madmen, Executioners

John Robert Bolton and Michael Richard Pompeo are Washington, D.C., hangers-on; one born in Baltimore, Maryland, the other in Orange, California, who managed to avoid the close and sustained heat of war, snagged an Ivy League JD (one Yale, one Harvard); cozied up to the pinnacle of U.S. power (more than 30 years); and have been tireless in their maliciousness and egged-on aggression against foreign nations, peoples, and individuals, and international institutions

Forty-five years after Eisenhower’s inaugural and 53 years after the establishment of the United Nations, the General Assembly of the UN convened in Rome and adopted the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court at The Hague (Netherlands) and describing its jurisdiction and rules of operation. The United States is not a signatory to the ICC; and high-placed officials in and around the U.S. foreign affairs sector (particularly in the backdrop of continuous U.S. wars, torture and other crimes against humanity) have viciously attacked the UN and the ICC.

In his position as U.S. Secretary of State (before that, CIA chief), Pompeo threatened the ICC: specifically, he threatened to unleash the power of the United States to revoke or deny “‘visas to International Criminal Court personnel seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other abuses committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere.’”

In his position of National Security Advisor, Bolton (whose nomination had been previously rejected for unfitness) also threatened the ICC: specifically, the banning of ICC “‘judges and prosecutors from entering the United States’”; tying up (sanctioning) “‘their funds in the U.S. financial system;’” and prosecuting the judges and prosecutors “in the U.S. criminal system.’” Bolton also expanded his threats to “‘any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans.’”

“We will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the United States. We will sanction their funds in the U.S. financial system, and we will prosecute them in the U.S. criminal system. We will do the same for any company or state that assists an ICC investigation of Americans.”

Among Bolton’s other ethnocentrisms or anti-Eisenhower’isms was a 2013 eruption in an opinion piece in which he is found quoting himself.

“I once said that by any objective standard, justification existed for only one permanent member (of the United Nations Security Council): namely, the United States.”

The United Nations Security Council convened its first session in London, England, in January of 1946. After that session, it took up residence at the New York City, New York, United Nations Headquarters.

The UNSC is composed of five permanent members (People’s Republic of China, French Republic, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and United States of America.

Of the 193 current Member States of the United Nations (the international body founded in 1945), more than 50 “have never been Members of the UN Security Council.”

Added or periphery to the Permanent Five are 10 two-year termed non-permanent members elected by the UN General Assembly. The current non-permanent members and their ending years: Albania (2023), Brazil (2023), Ecuador (2024), Gabon (2023), Ghana (2023), Japan (2024), Malta (2024), Mozambique (2024), Switzerland (2024), United Arab Emirates (2023).

Bolton insisted.  

“Even more problematic is the substantial number of other countries thinking they deserve permanent membership: Japan, India, Pakistan, Germany, Italy, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico and more.”

Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower (husband of “Mamie” until death) who in later years played golf at the Augusta National 

Rose from the U.S. Southwest and Heartland (Texas and Kansas) and actually served his country: active Military service 38 years 1915–1953 (inactive 1961–1969):

• Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany May 8, 1945 – November 10, 1945
• Army Chief of Staff November 19, 1945 – February 6, 1948
• First Supreme Allied Commander Europe April 2, 1951 – May 30, 1952
• Thirty-fourth President of the United States January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961.

Dwight David “Ike” Eisenhower October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969
Mary Geneva “Mamie” Eisenhower (née Doud), First Lady 1953 – 1961; lifetime November 14, 1896 – November 1, 1979


Sources

Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953, Eisenhower Library “Dwight D. Eisenhower taking the Oath of Office of the President of the United States, delivered in person at the U.S. Capitol https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/file/1953_inaugural_address.pdf
https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers/speeches

“Rule of Law, American Style: John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court” March 27, 2019 by Yves Smith, https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/03/rule-of-law-american-style-john-bolton-and-mike-pompeo-defy-the-international-criminal-court.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo

“BOLTON: The myth of a United Nations” COMMENTARY by John R. Bolton - The Washington Times - Tuesday, September 24, 2013, OPINION, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/24/bolton-the-myth-of-a-united-nations/

United Nations
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/current-members
https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/content/what-security-council
https://www.un.org/en/about-us

U.S. President and First Lady Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Eisenhower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

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UDHR 1948-2018

Universal Declaration of Human Rights verbatim

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.

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reamble

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,

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ow, 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.

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.

Article 2

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, 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.

Article 3

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

Article 4

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

Article 5

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

Article 6

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

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.

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.

Article 9

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

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.

Article 11

 (1) Everyone charged with a penal offense 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 defense.

(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offense on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offense, 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 offense was committed.

Article 12

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Article 23

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

Article 24

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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