Topic 3: Easy Reading Versions of UDHR Articles 12 – 17
Article 12: Right to privacy in the home, family, correspondence and reputation
No one has the right to intrude into your private life, home, or mail, or attack your honesty and self-respect for no good reason. Everyone has the right to have the law protect him or her against all such meddling or attacks.
Article 13: Freedom of movement in your own country and the right to
leave and return to any countries
- Within any country, you have the right to go and live where you want.
- You have the right to leave any country, including your own, and return to it when you want.
Article 14: Right to political asylum in other countries
- Everyone has the right to seek shelter from harassment in another country.
- This right does not apply in cases where the person has done something against the law that has nothing to do with politics or when she or he has done something that is against what the United Nations is all about.
Article 15: Right to have a nationality and be a citizen of your country
- You have a right to a country where you’re from.
- No one should be able to take you away from, or stop you from changing, your country for no good reason.
Article 16: Right to marriage and family and to equal rights for men and
women during and after marriage
- Grown men and women have the right to marry and start a family without anyone trying to stop them or make it hard because of their race, country, or religion. Both partners have equal rights in getting married, during the marriage, and if and when they decide to end it.
- A marriage shall take place only with the agreement of the couple.
- The family is the basic part of society and should be protected by it.
Article 17: Right to own property
- Everyone has the right to have belongings that they can keep alone or share with other people.
No one has the right to take your things away from you for no good reason.
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