Home Universal Declaration of Human Rights Articles 6-10

Video of campus community members Sibin Mohan, Janet Howard, and Valerie Ball reading Articles 6-10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in commemoration of Human Rights Day, December 10, 2006.

Video by Matt Helfant, NCSU BA Communications and Arts Applications 2003.

Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.
All 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.

Article 8.
Everyone 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.

Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.
Everyone 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.