Final rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights consists of an introduction or preamble and thirty articles. On this page we are going to expose articles 28 to 30. They include final provisions that culminate the Declaration. They indicate the interest in ensuring that Human Rights are included in the laws of all countries. It is also indicated that human rights also impose duties on all citizens and that they should not be misrepresented.

Study each of these articles:

• • Is it a freedom or a guarantee (positive or negative)? Some of the articles may be both.

  • Pay attention to the words with which it is formulated, explain those little known or technical words. Explain the right in your words.

  • Rights in general have limitations and conditions for their application. Find those limitations and conditions.

  • What is the reciprocal obligation to the right presented?

Article 28. Fair and free world

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. Responsibility

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. No one can take your rights away

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.