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Declaration of Human protection of his interests

Rights Article 24 : Rest & Leisure
Everyone has the right to rest and
Article 3 : Life, Liberty, & Security of leisure, including reasonable
Person limitation of working hours and
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and periodic holidays with pay.
security of person.

Article 7 : Equal Protection of the Law Article 25 : Adequate Standard of

All are equal before the law and are Living & Security
entitled without any discrimination to
equal protection of the law. All are 1. Everyone has the right to a
entitled to equal protection against any standard of living adequate for the
discrimination in violation of this health and well-being of himself
Declaration and against any incitement to and of his family, including food,
such discrimination. clothing, housing and medical care
and necessary social services, and
Article 17 : Property the right to security in the event
of unemployment, sickness,
1. Everyone has the right to own disability, widowhood, old age or
property alone as well as in other lack of livelihood in
association with others. circumstances beyond his control.
2. No one shall be arbitrarily 2. Motherhood and childhood are
deprived of his property. entitled to special care and
assistance. All children, whether
Article 22 : Social Security & born in or out of wedlock, shall
Economic, Social & Cultural Rights enjoy the same social protection.
Everyone, as a member of society, has
the right to social security and is entitled
to realization, through national effort and International Covenant on Economic,
international co-operation and in Social and Cultural Rights
accordance with the organization and
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resources of each State, of the economic,
social and cultural rights indispensable Article 6
for his dignity and the free development
of his personality. 1. The States Parties to the present
Covenant recognize the right to work,
Article 23 : Work & Equal Pay which includes the right of everyone to
the opportunity to gain his living by work
1. Everyone has the right to work, to which he freely chooses or accepts, and
free choice of employment, to just will take appropriate steps to safeguard
and favourable conditions of work this right.
and to protection against 2. The steps to be taken by a State Party
unemployment. to the present Covenant to achieve the
2. Everyone, without any full realization of this right shall include
discrimination, has the right to technical and vocational guidance and
equal pay for equal work. training programmes, policies and
3. Everyone who works has the right techniques to achieve steady economic,
to just and favourable social and cultural development and full
remuneration ensuring for himself and productive employment under
and his family an existence worthy conditions safeguarding fundamental
of human dignity, and political and economic freedoms to the
supplemented, if necessary, by individual.
other means of social protection.
4. Everyone has the right to form Article 7
and to join trade unions for the
The States Parties to the present order or for the protection of the rights
Covenant recognize the right of everyone and freedoms of others;
to the enjoyment of just and favourable
conditions of work which ensure, in (d) The right to strike, provided that it is
particular: exercised in conformity with the laws of
the particular country.
(a) Remuneration which provides all
workers, as a minimum, with: 2. This article shall not prevent the
imposition of lawful restrictions on the
(i) Fair wages and equal remuneration for exercise of these rights by members of
work of equal value without distinction of the armed forces or of the police or of the
any kind, in particular women being administration of the State.
guaranteed conditions of work not inferior 3. Nothing in this article shall authorize
to those enjoyed by men, with equal pay States Parties to the International Labour
for equal work; Organisation Convention of 1948
concerning Freedom of Association and
(ii) A decent living for themselves and Protection of the Right to Organize to take
their families in accordance with the legislative measures which would
provisions of the present Covenant; prejudice, or apply the law in such a
(b) Safe and healthy working conditions; manner as would prejudice, the
(c) Equal opportunity for everyone to be guarantees provided for in that
promoted in his employment to an Convention.
appropriate higher level, subject to no Article 9
considerations other than those of
seniority and competence; The States Parties to the present
Covenant recognize the right of everyone
(d) Rest, leisure and reasonable to social security, including social
limitation of working hours and periodic insurance.
holidays with pay, as well as
remuneration for public holidays Article 10
Article 8 The States Parties to the present
Covenant recognize that:
1. The States Parties to the present
Covenant undertake to ensure: 1. The widest possible protection and
assistance should be accorded to the
(a) The right of everyone to form trade family, which is the natural and
unions and join the trade union of his fundamental group unit of society,
choice, subject only to the rules of the particularly for its establishment and
organization concerned, for the while it is responsible for the care and
promotion and protection of his economic education of dependent children.
and social interests. No restrictions may Marriage must be entered into with the
be placed on the exercise of this right free consent of the intending spouses.
other than those prescribed by law and
which are necessary in a democratic 2. Special protection should be accorded
society in the interests of national to mothers during a reasonable period
security or public order or for the before and after childbirth. During such
protection of the rights and freedoms of period working mothers should be
others; accorded paid leave or leave with
adequate social security benefits.
(b) The right of trade unions to establish
national federations or confederations 3. Special measures of protection and
and the right of the latter to form or join assistance should be taken on behalf of
international trade-union organizations; all children and young persons without
any discrimination for reasons of
(c) The right of trade unions to function parentage or other conditions. Children
freely subject to no limitations other than and young persons should be protected
those prescribed by law and which are from economic and social exploitation.
necessary in a democratic society in the Their employment in work harmful to
interests of national security or public
their morals or health or dangerous to life 2. No one shall be held in servitude.
or likely to hamper their normal
development should be punishable by 3.
law. States should also set age limits (a) No one shall be required to perform
below which the paid employment of child forced or compulsory labour;
labour should be prohibited and
punishable by law. (b) Paragraph 3 (a) shall not be held to
preclude, in countries where
Article 11 imprisonment with hard labour may be
1. The States Parties to the present imposed as a punishment for a crime, the
Covenant recognize the right of everyone performance of hard labour in pursuance
to an adequate standard of living for of a sentence to such punishment by a
himself and his family, including competent court;
adequate food, clothing and housing, and (c) For the purpose of this paragraph the
to the continuous improvement of living term "forced or compulsory labour" shall
conditions. The States Parties will take not include:
appropriate steps to ensure the
realization of this right, recognizing to (i) Any work or service, not referred to in
this effect the essential importance of subparagraph (b), normally required of a
international co-operation based on free person who is under detention in
consent. consequence of a lawful order of a court,
or of a person during conditional release
2. The States Parties to the present from such detention;
Covenant, recognizing the fundamental
right of everyone to be free from hunger, (ii) Any service of a military character
shall take, individually and through and, in countries where conscientious
international co-operation, the measures, objection is recognized, any national
including specific programmes, which are service required by law of conscientious
needed: objectors;

(a) To improve methods of production, (iii) Any service exacted in cases of

conservation and distribution of food by emergency or calamity threatening the
making full use of technical and scientific life or well-being of the community;
knowledge, by disseminating knowledge
(iv) Any work or service which forms part
of the principles of nutrition and by
of normal civil obligations.
developing or reforming agrarian systems
in such a way as to achieve the most
efficient development and utilization of
natural resources;
(b) Taking into account the problems of
both food-importing and food-exporting
countries, to ensure an equitable
distribution of world food supplies in
relation to need.

International Covenant on Civil and

Political Rights

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Article 8
1. No one shall be held in slavery; slavery
and the slave-trade in all their forms shall
be prohibited.