Universal Declaration of Human Rights (extracts)

Summary sheet

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) — extracts

Overview: Extracts from the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (articles 8, 12, 17 and 28), gathered as reference material.

Key points

The document quotes four articles of the 1948 Declaration: article 8 (right to an effective remedy before the national courts), article 12 (protection against arbitrary interference with privacy, correspondence, honour and reputation), article 17 (right to property, no one being arbitrarily deprived of it) and article 28 (right to a social and international order in which these rights can be fully realised).

Significance

Documentary material chosen to place the dispute within the framework of fundamental rights — notably the right to an effective remedy and the right to property.

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