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EXTRACTS FROM
THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (1948)

 THE BARONESS BRIGSTOCKE, MEMBER Of THE BARONIAL ORDER OF MAGNA CHARTA, TRUSTEE OF THE MAGNA CARTA TRUST IN ENGLAND, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING UNION OF THE COMMONWEALTH READ THE FOLLOWING EXTRACTS FROM THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION Of HUMAN RIGHTS (1948) IN ST ALBANS CATHEDRAL, ST ALBANS, ENGLAND ON 14 JUNE 1998 ON THE OCCASION OF THE MAGNA CARTA TRUST CELEBRATION.

"All 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 --- Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person --- No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms --- No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment --- No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile --- Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to the law in a public trial at which he has all the guarantees necessary for his defense --- Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses --- Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others --- No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property --- Everyone 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 --Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association --- ".

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