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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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