• The right to life and to live in freedom and safety;
• The right not to be made or treated as a slave;
• The right not to be hurt or tortured;
• The right to be treated fairly by the law, which should be the same for everyone;
• The right to ask the law to help us if we are not treated fairly;
• The right not to be put in prison without a good reason or to be sent away from our country;
• The right to be tried in public;
• The right not to be blamed for doing something until it is proved that we did it;
• The right to our good name;
• The right to privacy - no one should come into our home, open our letters or bother us or our families without a good reason;
• The right to travel freely in our own country and to go abroad if we wish;
• The right to go to another country if we are frightened of being badly treated in our own country;
• The right to belong to a country;
• The right to marry and have a family;
• The right to own things and not to have these things taken from us without a good reason;
• The right to our beliefs and to have a religion;
• The right to have ideas and say what we think;
• The right to meet other people and assemble in a peaceful way;
• The right take part in the government of our country and the right to vote if we are old enough;
• The right to a home, enough money to live on and health care if we get ill;
• The right to share in the cultural life of our community;
• The right to a job, a fair wage for our work and to join a trade union;
• The right to rest from work, to relax and play;
• The right to a good life and to receive care and support if we need it;
• The right to go to school and to receive free primary education;
• The right to our own way of life and to enjoy the good things that science and learning can bring.

The Declaration also says that everyone must respect the ‘social order' so that we can all enjoy rights and freedoms in our own country and all over the world. We also have a responsibility to respect the rights of other people, the community and public property.

Know your rights.

Respect other people's rights.

Be responsible!

The full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.