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Article 1. <br />All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with <br />reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. <br />Article 2. <br />Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without <br />distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other <br />opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction <br />shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country <br />or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or <br />under any other limitation of sovereignty. <br />Article 3. <br />Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. <br />Article 4. <br />No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in <br />all their forms. <br />Article 5. <br />No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or <br />punishment. <br />Article 6. <br />Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. <br />Article 7. <br />All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of <br />the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this <br />Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination. <br />Article 8. <br />Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts <br />violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. <br />Article 9. <br />No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. <br />Article I0. <br />Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and <br />impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal <br />charge against him. <br />Article 11. <br />(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved <br />guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for <br />his defense. <br />(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which <br />did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was <br />committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the <br />time the penal offence was committed. <br />