What is Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
{{wikisource}} [[File:Eleanor Roosevelt UDHR.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Eleanor Roosevelt]] and UNs Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1949)]] The '''Universal Declaration of Human Rights''' is a ''declaration'' (something said in an important way) by the [[United Nations]] General Assembly. It talks about basic [[human rights]] -- [[rights]] that all people have just because they are [[human]]. It was ''adopted'' (agreed to) by the United Nations General Assembly on [[December 10]], [[1948]]. The UDHR ([[initialism]] for '''U'''niversal '''D'''eclaration of '''H'''uman '''R'''ights) is [[translate]]d into over 300 [[language]]s. This is more languages than any other document, according to the [[Guinness Book of World Records]].{{fact|date=August 2015}} == Important ideas == The UDHR may be broken into 30 parts or ''articles''. Each article says one idea about human rights. Most people think these are the most important ideas: * All people are born free and equal, because they have [[reason]] and [[conscience]]. * Everyone has a right to [[life]], [[liberty]], and [[wikt:security|security]] of their person. * Everyone should be protected from any kind of [[discrimination]]. * Everyone has a right to have a [[nationality]] and change one's nationality. * Everyone has a [[right to education|right to an education]]. * Everyone has a right to get a [[job]]. * Everyone has a [[election|right to vote]] and take part in the government of one's own country. * Everyone has a right to take part in [[culture|cultural life]]—to choose a way of life. * No person may be [[torture]]d, or treated in a cruel or unkind way. * Everyone has the right to seek and gain [[Political asylum|asylum]] from persecution. * Everyone has a right to have ideas or [[opinion]]s, to decide what is right and what is wrong, and to [[freedom of religion|choose a religion]]. * Everyone has a [[freedom of speech|right to speak or write freely]] and [[freedom of assembly|right to join a peaceful group]] to express one's opinion. * Everyone has a right