Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a fundamental component of international law. Of particular interest are Articles 23 and 25:

Article 23.

(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.


Article 25.

(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.


Our fundamental human rights, as guaranteed by international law, are being systematically violated.

For the text of the full document:

http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

 

[teddybear4play]

Our fundamental human rights, as guaranteed by international law, are being systematically violated.

How so?

TB4p

 

[Problem Child]

I wonder how many nations actually satisfy all those rules.

I can't think of one. Some of the nordic countries might be close, but they also have outrageous tax rates.

Rule (2) requires that we somehow magically eliminate discrimination, and I don't know of any nation or government on earth that has managed to do that successfully.

 

[modest mouse]

I cant follow any laws written by people who can not spell favorable.

 

[Freya]

I cant follow any laws written by people who can not spell favorable.

Then you'd better not make any laws since you just spelt it wrong.

 

[Problem Child]

Then you'd better not make any laws since you just spelt it wrong.

The remedy to a bad joke should never be an equally bad joke.

 

[Darkthought]

I cant follow any laws written by people who can not spell favorable.

It's spelled favourable in every English speaking country, save the U.S.

Of course, it is an American document, you'd think they'd spell it with American English.

 

[Darkthought]

The remedy to a bad joke should never be an equally bad joke.

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

I like the constitution better. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

 

[modest mouse]

Then you'd better not make any laws since you just spelt it wrong.

... and thus began WWIII.

 

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Roses

Except "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" isn't in the Constitution. It's in the Declaration of Independence, which technically does not have the force of law.

 

[teddybear4play]

Then you'd better not make any laws since you just spelt it wrong.

Ack! You just spelled "spelled" wrong!

TB4p

 

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Torture and arbitrary arrest

Also worth special notice are Article 5 and Article 9. Article 5 says: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." Article 9 provides: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile."

Both articles have been grossly violated by the Bush regime, by its detention of thousands without charges, and by its inhumane treatment of "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.

 

[SINthysist]

Fuck them. They went to war. You assume the risks...

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The United States is governed by the Constitution, not the United Nations.

What else you got?

 

[SINthysist]

On second thought, Let's violate one of REDWAVE's immutable laws of human harmony...
























































FUCK YOU TOO!

 

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DCL

So you're saying the U.S. has no obligation to follow international law? Interesting, since it always wants to use "international law" as a pretext for bullying and attacking weaker nations . . .

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

DCL So you're saying the U.S. has no obligation to follow international law?

That's exactly right. No obligation. Clear?

 

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Crystal

A more clearcut expression of American arrogance as the world's most powerful "rogue nation" could hardly be made.

Not to mention that Articles 5 and 9 have corresponding provisions in the U.S. Constitution, which Bush obviously doesn't feel obligated to honor either . . .

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Pshaw. We are an enormously succesful nation state with the oldest constitution on earth (save the one "understood" but not written down by the British) with enormous global interests we're allowed to have, and you're someone who can't hear "black" without saying "white". If America were a gloriously successful socialist state you'd be standing on a street corner proclaiming that we should all be Quakers.

The term "knee-jerk" was invented for you.

 

[RawHumor]

The term "knee-jerk" was invented for you.

You're half-right.

 

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The I word

A nation which has "enormous global interests" is, by definition, imperialist.

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

Re: Roses

Except "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" isn't in the Constitution. It's in the Declaration of Independence, which technically does not have the force of law.

You're right, I've been half asleep all day long.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Re: The I word

A nation which has "enormous global interests" is, by definition, imperialist.

France doesn't trade champagne with Gemany? England doesn't get oil from Turkey? Italy doesn't get medicine from the United States? These are global interests. I see no gunships.

You live in a world with a tiny, tiny dictionary.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happieness" IS in the Constitution. It's called "The Bill of Rights", and protects those rights from abuses of the document.