Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for August 04, 2014
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The Universal Declaration of HUMAN RIGHTS Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948, the Universal Declaration states basic rights and fundamental freedoms to which all human beings are entitled. WE ARE ALL BORN FREE AND EQUAL EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO THESE RIGHTS No matter your race, religion or nationality EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO LIFE, FREEDOM AND SAFETY No one has the right to hold you in savery. No one has the right to torture you. You have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. We are all equal before the law and are entitled to equal protection of the law. You have the right to seek legal help if your rights are violated. You have the right to a fair and public trial. Everyone is innocent until PROVEN guilty. You have the right to prvacy. No one can interfere with your reputation, family, home or correspondence. You can travel wherever you want. You have the right to seek asylum in another country if you are being persecuted in your own country. Everyone has the right to a nationality. All adults have the right to marriage and to raise a family. You have the right to own property. Everyone has the right to belong to a religion. Freedom of Expression: You have the right to free thought and to voice your opinions to others. Everyone has the right to gather as a peaceful assembly. You have the right to help choose and to take part in governing your country, directly or through chosen representatives. VOTE You have the right to social security and are entitled to economic, social and cultural help from your government. Worker’s rights: Every adult has the right to a job, a fair wage and to join a trade union. You have the right to leisure and rest from work. Everyone has the right to an adequate standard of living for themselves and their family. Everyone has the right to education. Your intellectual property as an artist or scientist should be protected. We are all entitled to social order so we can enjoy these rights. You have the responsibility to respect the rights of others NO ONE CAN TAKE AWAY ANY OF YOUR RIGHTS United Nations 2013 For the full version of the declaration visit UN.ORG/EN/DOCUMENTS/UOHR/
Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
Even it is a U.S. quote, let freedom ring!
Carlos Oedayrajsingh Varma Premium Member over 10 years ago
I hope you show this to the Arab nations as well. For they do not respect it, but demand it of others if they are concerned!!!
StellaMaris over 10 years ago
So does everybody else, Carlos, that is exactly the problem. One measure for ourselves, one measure for the others …Because we are the good guys, and the others have to be shown the good way, if necessary, by force.
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 10 years ago
Clearly, they lived in far different times and could not envision the world in which we live. This needs to be a living document, open to revision and interpretation to make it relevant in the modern world. YaY!
Randal Goodall Premium Member over 10 years ago
This entitlement malarkey generates the heat of pride but not the light of wisdom. It keeps the unthinking masses under control by misdirection, so the powerful can do as they please. All rights are bestowed by power; their declaration is meaningless without a simultaneous declaration and common acknowledgement and acceptance of the power that upholds them. The UN’s socialist manifesto, mockingly derived from the simple “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” origins of the US founding fathers, is all about taking and not about giving. It is a copy in form, not substance, and can never succeed, ever.
Simon Seamount over 10 years ago
Where it says “Everyone has the right to belong to a religion,” it needs to say “Or Not” at the end.
Chief Inspector over 10 years ago
I can travel wherever I want? How about Cuba.?
imdaboss over 10 years ago
It all depends on the nation of your birth.
MeGoNow Premium Member over 10 years ago
All of the above subject to Catch 22:. They can do anything to you that you can’t stop them from doing..Declarations do not insure rights or freedoms. Ready willingness to do the hard things insure rights and freedoms. Rights and freedoms that smell of flowers and sunshine are taken for granted. They are not appreciated once the sweat and gun oil dissipate.
fefsofdl2 Premium Member over 10 years ago
Thank you for the beautiful strip…it illuminates our strengths and our short comings…no place is perfect…we still need to strive.
therryns over 10 years ago
You can travel to Cuba if you go to Canada first.
koredbr over 10 years ago
Some have already pointed this out but I will again. Some of these rights don’t exist in the US. Good luck getting all of these no matter where you live because that place doesn’t exist.
Tinozzi over 10 years ago
I may just purchase this poster.
popomatic over 10 years ago
I wonder if there is a country in the whole world what actually follows and obeys all of these rights? Sadly, I don’t think so
mr_sherman Premium Member over 10 years ago
The best way we can be sure of having these rights for ourselves is to be willing to stand up for these rights for others.
hippogriff over 10 years ago
Simon Seamount : “Or not” is a reigion. Like all the others, it is based on faith in a doctrine that can neither be proven or falsified.
ziggman14304 over 10 years ago
The only “Rights” that anyone has are those bestowed by their government. Which will strip them away in a second if it deems it necessary. We must all work to isure that this does not happen.
hawgowar over 10 years ago
And what planet is this author from? Not this one.
PaBlum Premium Member over 10 years ago
The loophole that can take it away is article 29:
Article 29.
(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.ziggman14304 over 10 years ago
Gorbag- I couldn’t think of the right word, it’s more like “allowed to have” not bestowed.
OneDayAtATime almost 6 years ago
The only ‘rights’ anyone has ever had are those that they can take and defend. Everything else is a right only as long as someone else is willing and capable of fighting for it. Strangely, people are great about talking about other people’s rights, but are much less willing to fight for them.