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DESCRIPTION:Please join the SF Gray Panthers in a public reading the Universal 
 Declaration of Human Rights 
 (https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights) on 
 Monday, December 11, 2023 @ noon on the steps on the Polk Street side of SF 
 City Hall!  (In cooperation with the office of SF Board of Supervisor Dean 
 Preston).  For more information, please email us at ! -SF Gray 
 Panthers\n\nThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights:\nThe Universal 
 Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history 
 of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and 
 cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was 
 proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 
 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of 
 achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first 
 time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been 
 translated into over 500 languages. The UDHR is widely recognized as having 
 inspired, and paved the way for, the adoption of more than seventy human 
 rights treaties, applied today on a permanent basis at global and regional 
 levels (all containing references to it in their preambles). 
 \n\nPreamble:\nWhereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal 
 and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation 
 of freedom, justice and peace in the world,\n\nWhereas disregard and 
 contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have 
 outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which 
 human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear 
 and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common 
 people,\n\nWhereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have 
 recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, 
 that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,\n\nWhereas it is 
 essential to promote the development of friendly relations between 
 nations,\n\nWhereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter 
 reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and 
 worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have 
 determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in 
 larger freedom,\n\nWhereas Member States have pledged themselves to 
 achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of 
 universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental 
 freedoms,\n\nWhereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is 
 of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,\n\nNow, 
 therefore,\n\nThe General Assembly,\n\nProclaims this Universal Declaration 
 of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all 
 nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, 
 keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and 
 education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by 
 progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal 
 and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member 
 States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their 
 jurisdiction. \n\nArticle 1:\nAll human beings are born free and equal in 
 dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should 
 act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.\n\nArticle 2:\nEveryone 
 is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, 
 without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, 
 religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, 
 birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the 
 basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the 
 country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, 
 trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of 
 sovereignty.\n\nArticle 3:\nEveryone has the right to life, liberty and 
 security of person.\n\nArticle 4:\nNo one shall be held in slavery or 
 servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their 
 forms.\n\nArticle 5:\nNo one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, 
 inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.\n\nArticle 6:\nEveryone has 
 the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.\n\nArticle 
 7:\nAll are equal before the law and are entitled without any 
 discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal 
 protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and 
 against any incitement to such discrimination.\n\nArticle 8:\nEveryone has 
 the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for 
 acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by 
 law.\n\nArticle 9:\nNo one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, 
 detention or exile.\n\nArticle 10:\nEveryone is entitled in full equality 
 to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in 
 the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge 
 against him.\n\nArticle 11:\nEveryone charged with a penal offence has the 
 right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a 
 public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his 
 defence.\nNo one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of 
 any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under 
 national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall 
 a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time 
 the penal offence was committed.\nArticle 12:\nNo one shall be subjected to 
 arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, 
 nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to 
 the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.\n\nArticle 
 13:\nEveryone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the 
 borders of each state.\nEveryone has the right to leave any country, 
 including his own, and to return to his country.\nArticle 14:\nEveryone has 
 the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from 
 persecution.\nThis right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions 
 genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the 
 purposes and principles of the United Nations.\nArticle 15:\nEveryone has 
 the right to a nationality.\nNo one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his 
 nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.\nArticle 
 16:\nMen 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.\nMarriage shall be entered into only with the free and 
 full consent of the intending spouses.\nThe family is the natural and 
 fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society 
 and the State.\nArticle 17:\nEveryone has the right to own property alone 
 as well as in association with others.\nNo one shall be arbitrarily 
 deprived of his property.\nArticle 18:\nEveryone 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.\n\nArticle 19:\nEveryone 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.\n\nArticle 20:\nEveryone has the right to freedom of peaceful 
 assembly and association.\nNo one may be compelled to belong to an 
 association.\nArticle 21:\nEveryone has the right to take part in the 
 government of his country, directly or through freely chosen 
 representatives.\nEveryone has the right of equal access to public service 
 in his country.\nThe 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.\nArticle 
 22:\nEveryone, 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.\n\nArticle 
 23:\nEveryone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just 
 and favourable conditions of work and to protection against 
 unemployment.\nEveryone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal 
 pay for equal work.\nEveryone 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.\nEveryone has the right to form and to join trade unions 
 for the protection of his interests.\nArticle 24:\nEveryone has the right 
 to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and 
 periodic holidays with pay.\n\nArticle 25:\nEveryone 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.\nMotherhood and childhood 
 are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in 
 or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.\nArticle 
 26:\nEveryone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least 
 in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be 
 compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally 
 available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the 
 basis of merit.\nEducation shall be directed to the full development of the 
 human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and 
 fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and 
 friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further 
 the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.\nParents 
 have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to 
 their children.\nArticle 27:\nEveryone has the right freely to participate 
 in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in 
 scientific advancement and its benefits.\nEveryone has the right to the 
 protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any 
 scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the 
 author.\nArticle 28:\nEveryone is entitled to a social and international 
 order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be 
 fully realized.\n\nArticle 29:\nEveryone has duties to the community in 
 which alone the free and full development of his personality is 
 possible.\nIn 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.\nThese rights and freedoms 
 may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the 
 United Nations.\nArticle 30:\nNothing in this Declaration may be 
 interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage 
 in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of 
 the rights and freedoms set forth herein.\n 
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SUMMARY:Read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights outside City Hall!
LOCATION:Polk Street side of SF City Hall
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