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

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

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“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.”

“(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.”

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“(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.”

“(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“(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.”

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“(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.”

“(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.”

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