Topic 4: Easy Reading Versions of Article 29 – 30

Article 29: Each person has responsibilities to the community and others as essential for a democratic society. This includes sharing and teaching the rights.
1) You have a responsibility to the place you live and the people around you; we all do. Only by watching out for each other can we each become our individual best.
2) In order to be free, there have to be laws and limits that respect everyone’s rights, meet our sense of right and wrong, and keep the peace in a world where we all play an active part.
3) Nobody should use her or his freedom to go against what the United Nations was created to protect.

Article 30: Repression in the name of rights is unacceptable, and none of the rights can be taken away.
All the rights are as important as each other. There is nothing in this statement that says that anybody has the right to do anything that would weaken or take away these rights.