1971
Universal Declaration of the Rights of Human Organization
an experimental extension of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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This paper first appeared in: International Associations / Associations
Internationales, XXIII, 1, 1971, pp. 13-26.
The four groups of paragraphs below have the following significance:
Individual: represents human rights. These are indicated in italics. This
is the authorized text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as
contained in the Official Records of the Third Session of the United Nations General
Assembly, Doc. A/810. Minor changes have been made to paragraph punctuation and use of
capitals;
Collective: represents organizational and collective rights and the rights of
groups;
Discipline: represents the rights of disciplines and other modes of thought and
activity;
Role: represents personal rights, namely the rights a person should permit their
own roles and all their own modes of thought and activity.
PREAMBLE
Whereas
Individual: Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and
inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom,
justice and peace in the world;
Collective: Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable
rights of all human groups and organs of society, evolved within each and every social
process, is the organizational foundation for balanced and adequate progress towards a
free, just and peaceful world;
Discipline: Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable
rights of all human modes of thought and activity, evolved in each and every sector of the
social process, is the conceptual foundation for balanced and adequate progress towards a
free, just, peaceful and fulfilling world;
Role: Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable
rights of all one's modes of thought and activity, evolved in the course of all aspects of
one's life, is the psychological foundation for balanced and adequate progress towards a
free, peaceful and fulfilling personal life.
Whereas
Individual: Disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in
barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in
which human beings shall enjoy. freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and
want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people;
Collective: Disregard and contempt for the rights and significance of all human
groups and collective social entities have resulted in ignominious and irresponsible acts
which have: destroyed or eroded vital social structures, processes and cultures; opposed
full participation of all concerned groups in the solution of social problems and the
compensation for inadequacies in each group,s activities; caused the creation of an
impenetrable maze of non-interacting social organs; thus: wasting human and material
resources; frustrating and alienating the individual; critically reducing the efficacy
with which humanity's increasingly complex problems are detected and resolved; and
increasing the probability of global disaster -- the advent of a world in which groups
shall enjoy freedom of expression and belief, and freedom from oppression and inability to
interact effectively or respond to the consequences their own activity has been proclaimed
as a vital means of fulfilment for the common people embedded in complex social processes;
Discipline: Disregard and contempt for the rights and significance of all human
modes of thought and activity have resulted in ignominious and irresponsible acts which
have: destroyed, eroded or threatened the natural and social environmental processes;
opposed full or balanced use of all relevant disciplines in the solution of social
problems and the compensation for inadequacies in the perspective of each such discipline;
caused the creation of an impenetrable maze of unintegrated specialized modes of thought
and activity each unable to defect the wider consequences of its own use or to define
satisfactorily the limits of its own relevance; thus: wasting human and material
resources; frustrating and alienating the individual; critically reducing the efficacy
with which humanity's increasingly complex problems are detected and resolved; and
increasing the probability of global disasterþ the advent of a world in which all desired
modes of thought and activity shall be freely expressed, and freedom from oppression . and
inability to interact effectively or respond to the consequences of their own use has been
proclaimed as a vital means of fulfilment for the common people embedded in complex social
processes;
Role: Disregard and contempt for the rights and significance of all one's modes
of thought and activity tend to result in harsh and unbalanced acts which . destroy; erode
or threaten one's physical, emotional and mental health; oppose full or balanced use of
all one's physical and psychological resources in the solution of personal and family
problems and in the compensation for inadequacies in the perspective of each of one's
roles; cause the creation of a complex maze of partially or totally unintegrated roles
each unable to detect the wider consequences of its own activity or to define
satisfactorily the limits of its own relevance; thus: diminishing one's physical and
psychological resources; frustrating and isolating the roles in question; critically
reducing the efficacy with which one's increasingly complex problems are detected and
resolved; increasing the probability of physical or mental breakdown -- the possibility of
a personal life in which all one's desired modes of thought and activity can be freely
expressed, and freedom from fear and the inability of roles to interact effectively or
respond to the consequences of their own activity has been proclaimed as a vital means of
self-fulfilment and role development;
Whereas
Individual: It is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse,
as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human right should be
protected by the rule of law;
Collective: It is essential, if a group is not to have recourse, as a last
resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that the rights of groups should be
protected by the rule of law, the community of organizations and an adequate availability
of information;
Discipline: It is essential, if a mode of thought or activity is not to be
protected, as a last resort, by rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that the rights
of disciplines should be protected by the rule of law, the community of disciplines and an
adequate availability of information;
Role: It is essential, if one of one's modes of thought or activity is not to be
compelled, as a last resort, to protect itself by rebelling against one's rigidity and
oppression, that the rights of roles should be protected by the rule of one's conscience.
Whereas
Individual: It is essential to promote the development of friendly relations
between nations;
Collective: It is essential to promote the development of cooperation between
groups.
Discipline: It is essential to promote the development of interaction between
disciplines;
Role: It is essential to promote the development of interaction between one's
roles.
Whereas
Individual: The peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed
their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and
in equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better
standards of life in larger freedom;
Collective: The peoples of the United Nations reaffirm their faith in
fundamental rights of human organizations and in the dignity and worth of each such group
within its own context;
Discipline: The peoples of the United Nations reaffirm their faith in
fundamental rights of human behavioral patterns and the dignity and worth of each such
organization of activity within its own context;
Role: One reaffirms one's faith in fundamental rights of each of one's roles and
the dignity and worth of each such organization of one's activity within its behavioral
context.
Whereas
Individual: Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation
with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human
rights and fundamental freedoms;
Collective: Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation
with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of the
rights and fundamental freedoms of human groups;
Discipline: Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation
with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of the
rights of all modes of human thought and activity;
Role: Individuals have pledged themselves to achieve, in cooperation with one
another, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of the rights of all modes
of human thought and activity.
Whereas
A common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance
for the full realization of this pledge.
Now, Therefore, The General Assembly
Proclaims this Universal Declaration of the Rights of Human Organization as a
common standard of achievement for all peoples, groups, nations and disciplines, to
the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping, this Declaration
constantly in mind; shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these
rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national, international and
interdisciplinary, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance
both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories
under their jurisdiction.
Article 1
Individual: 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;
Collective: All human groups are created or evolved free and equal in dignity,
rights and significance within their own context. They are the organized expression and
extension of the reason and conscience of human beings and should act towards one another
in a spirit of cooperation;
Discipline: All human modes of thought and activity are conceived or evolved
free and equal in dignity, rights and significance within their own context. They are the
philosophical, intellectual, emotional or behavioral expression of the reason and
conscience of human beings and should be related to one another in a spirit of synthesis;
Role: All one's modes of thought and activity are conceived or evolved free and
equal in dignity, rights and significance within their own behavioral context. They are
the philosophical, intellectual emotional or behavioral expression and response of one's
conscience and should be related to one another in a spirit of integration.
Article 2
Individual: Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in
this Declaration without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language,
religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other
status;
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of political, jurisdictional or
international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be
independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty;
Collective: Every group is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in
this Declaration without distinction of any kind, such as might be based upon race,
colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, purpose or activity, national or
social origin, method or degree of organization, property, patronage, governmental or
professional standing, or other status.
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of political, jurisdictional
inter-organizational or international status of the organizational, functional or
geographical territory with which the group is associated, whether it be independent,
autonomous, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of self-control;
Discipline: Every mode of thought and activity is entitled to all the rights and
freedoms set forth in this Declaration without distinction of any kind, such as might be
based upon disciplinary or behavioral context, method of expression, belief or
philosophical foundation, political or other context, purpose, social or intellectual
origin, method of defining or ordering facts, patronage, academic or other status;
Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of political, jurisdictional,
interdisciplinary or international status of the organizational, functional or
geographical territory with which the mode of thought or activity is associated, whether
it be independent, autonomous, non-self- governing or under any other limitation of
self-control;
Role: Each of one's modes of thought and activity is entitled to all the rights
and freedoms set forth in this Declaration without distinction of any kind, such as might
be based upon disciplinary context, method of expression, belief or philosophical
foundation, purpose, social or intellectual origin, method of defining or relating facts,
or other status;
Furthermore, no distinction should be made on the basis of the political,
jurisdictional or interdisciplinary status of the behavioral context with which the mode
of thought or activity is associated whether it be accepted as independent of, or
dependent upon, the activity of others, or under any other limitation on self-control.
Article 3
Individual: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person;
Collective: Every group has the right to life, liberty and security whilst human
beings continue to express the desire to remain associated with lit and to express
themselves through it;
Discipline: Every discipline has the right to be freely expressed in a suitable
environment whilst human beings continue to express a desire for it;
Role: Each of one's modes of thought and activity should have the right to be
freely expressed in a suitable environment whilst one continues to desire such a method of
expression;
Article 4
Individual: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the
slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms;
Collective: No group shall be constrained to act contrary to the desires of its
members under the control of some other group; the use of front organizations in all their
forms shall be prohibited;
Discipline: No discipline shall be constrained to define itself within the
framework of some other discipline;
Role: None of one's modes of thought or activity should be constrained to
integrate itself within the framework of some other role.
Article 5
Individual: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment;
Collective: No group shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment;
Discipline: No human mode of thought or activity shall be deliberately perverted
or misrepresented or in other ways subject to dishonourable or degrading treatment;
Role: None of one's modes of thought or activity should be deliberately
perverted or misrepresented or in other ways subjected to dishonourable or degrading
treatment.
Article 6
Individual: Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person
before the law;
Collective: Every group has the right to recognition everywhere as a human
organization before the law and the community of organizations;
Discipline: Every discipline has the right to recognition everywhere as a human
pattern of activity before the law and the community of disciplines;
Role: Each of one's modes of thought and activity should have the right under
all conditions to recognition before one's conscience as valid within the network of one's
psycho-social processes;
Article 7
Individual: 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;
Collective: All groups are equal before the law and are entitled without any
discrimination to equal protection of the law. All groups are entitled to equal protection
against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to
such discrimination;
Discipline: All human modes of thought and activity are equal before the law and
are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All modes of
activity are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this
Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination;
Role: All one's modes of thought and activity should be equal before one's
conscience and should be entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of one's
conscience. All modes of activity should be entitled to equal protection against any
discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such
discrimination.
Article 8
Individual: 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;
Collective: Every group has the right to an effective remedy by the competent
national, international or inter-organizational tribunals for acts violating the
fundamental rights granted it by the constitution or by law Discipline: Every mode
of thought and activity has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national,
international or inter-disciplinary tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights
granted it by the constitution or by law;
Role: Each of one's modes of thought and activity should have the right to an
effective remedy before ones conscience for acts violating the fundamental rights granted
it in terms of one's principles.
Article 9
Individual: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile;
Collective: No group shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, exile or
disbandment;
Discipline: No mode of thought or activity shall be subjected to arbitrary
restriction, containment, banishment or repression;
Role: None of one's modes of thought or activity should be subjected to
arbitrary, restriction, containment or repression.
Article 10
Individual: 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;
Collective: Every group is entitled in full equality to a fair and public
hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of its rights and
obligations and of any criminal charge against it;
Discipline: Every mode of thought and activity is entitled to a fair and public
hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of its rights and
obligations and of any criminal charge against it;
Role: Each of one's modes of thought and activity should be entitled to fair
examination before one's conscience at a time when one is calm and can consider the matter
in a detached and balanced manner to determine its rights and obligations and of any crime
against one's conscience with which one wishes to charge it.
Article 11
Individual:
- Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until
proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees
necessary for his defence;
- No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission
which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time
when It was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was
applicable at the time when the penal offence was committed;
Collective:
- Every group charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until
proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which it has had all the guarantees
necessary for its defence;
- No group shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission
which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time
when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was
applicable at the time the penal offence was committed;
Discipline:
- Every mode of thought or activity charged with dysfunctionality within the social
process has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a
public trial at which its supporters have had all the guarantees necessary for its
defence;
- No mode of thought or activity shall be held dysfunctional on account of any act or
omission which did not constitute dysfunctionality, under national or international law,
at the time the offence was committed;
Role:
- Each of one's modes of thought and activity which one considers guilty of an offence
against one's principles should have the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty
during a calm, balanced and conscious examination of the matter during which all arguments
for its defence are considered;
- None of one's modes of thought or activity should be considered dysfunctional on account
of any act or omission which did not constitute dysfunctionality in the light of one,s
conscience at the time when the act was committed. Nor should one impose a heavier penalty
on such a role than was applicable at the time when the offence was committed.
Article 12
Individual: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his
privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.
Everyone has the right to protection of the law against such interference or attacks;
Collective: No group shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with its
privacy, immediate contacts, offices or correspondence, nor to attacks upon its honour and
reputation. Every group has the right to the protection of the law against such
interference or attacks;
Discipline: No discipline shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with its
internal concerns, relationships or supporting information, nor to attacks upon its
integrity and reputation. Every mode of activity has the right to the protection of the
law against such interference or attacks;
Role: None of one's roles should be subjected to arbitrary interference with its
sub-roles, relationships to other roles, legitimizing concepts, nor to attacks upon its
integrity and reputation. Each of one's modes of activity should have the right to the
protection of one's conscience against such interference or attacks.
Article 13
Individual:
- Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of
each State;
- Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his
country;
Collective:
- Every group has the right to move its activities and base of operations within the
borders of each State;
- Every group has the right to move its base of operations from any country, including its
own, and to return it to its country;
Discipline:
- Every mode of thought and activity has the right to be expressed within the borders of
each State;
- Every mode of thought and activity has the right to be propagated across all national
frontiers, including those of its country of origin;
Role:
- Each of ones modes of thought and activity should have the right to be expressed
wherever one goes.
Article 14
Individual:
- Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from
persecution;
- This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from
non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United
Nations;
Collective:
- Every group has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from
persecution;
- This right may not be invoked in the case of persecutions genuinely arising from
non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United
Nations;
Discipline:
- Every mode of thought and activity has the right to be expressed in other countries when
faced with persecution in its own;
- This right may not be invoked in the case of persecutions arising from non-political
irresponsible acts or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United
Nations;
Role:
- Each of ones roles should have the right to seek and to enjoy protection from
persecution within the framework of some other more general role;
- This right should not be invoked in the case of persecution genuinely arising from acts
contrary to one's purposes and principles.
Article 15
Individual:
- Everyone has the right to a nationality;
- No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to
change his nationality;
Collective:
- Every group has the right to function in terms of a particular national legislation;
- No group shall be arbitrarily deprived of its national legal status nor denied the right
to change its national legal status;
- Transnational and international groups have the right to a special status within each
national legislation;
Discipline:
- Every discipline has the right to function in terms of the principles and methods of a
more general discipline;
- No discipline shall be arbitrarily required to modify the principles and methods in
terms of which it functions nor denied the right to change them;
- Transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary groups have the right to a
special status within each discipline;
Role:
- Each of ones roles should have the right to be associated specifically with one of one s
more general role complexes;
- None of one's roles should be arbitrarily deprived of the pattern of activity within
which it functions, nor denied the right to function within the framework of some other
role;
- More general or highly integrated roles should have the right to special consideration
in terms of a given role perspective.
Article 16
Individual:
- Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or
religion, have the right to marry and to form a family. They are entitled to equal rights
as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution;
- Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending
spouses;
- The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to
protection by society and the State;
Collective:
- Human groups, without any limitation due to social origin, nationality, governmental
status, purpose or beliefs have the right to link, merge or associate and to create
subsidiaries, affiliates or joint programmes. They are entitled to proportional rights, in
terms of their mutually agreed contributions on linkage, during the association and the
dissolution of the linkage;
- Links between groups shall be entered into only with free and full consent of the
intending partners;
- Linkage between social entities, whether human beings or groups, is the fundamental
process of social integration. Links are entitled to protection by society and the State;
Discipline:
- Human modes of thought and activity, without any limitation due to racial, national,
social or religious origin, have.the right to be integrated, merged or associated and to
be sub-divided into sub-disciplines. The contributions of the participating disciplines
are entitled to respect during the period of association;
- Interaction between disciplines shall be undertaken only as a mutually agreed natural
consequence of the development of the potential of the intending partners;
- The relationships between concept or activity patterns are the intellectual or
behavioral foundation of human and social organization. Such relationships are entitled to
protection by society and the State;
Role:
- Each of one's modes of thought and activity, without any limitation due to racial,
national, social, or religious origin, should have the right to be integrated, merged or
associated with other modes and to be fragmented into sub- disciplines. The contributions
of each of the participating modes should be entitled to consideration during the period
of association;
- Inter-action between one's modes of thought or activity should be undertaken only as a
natural consequence of the development of the potential of all of the participating modes;
- The relationships between one's concept or activity patterns are the psychological or
behavioral foundation of the organization of one's personality. Such relationships should
be entitled to the protection and support of one's whole personality.
Article 17
Individual:
- Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others;
- No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property;
Collective:
- Every group has the right to own property alone as well as in association with other
groups;
- No group shall be arbitrarily deprived of its property;
Discipline:
- Every discipline has the right to base itself upon substantiating data, procedures and
arguments alone as well as in association with other disciplines
- No discipline shall be arbitrarily deprived of such intellectual property;
Role:
- Each of ones roles should have the right to base itself upon legitimizing data,
procedures and arguments, by itself as well as in association with other roles;
- None of one's roles should be arbitrarily deprived of such foundations.
Article 18
Individual: 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 its belief
in teaching, practice, worship and observance;
Collective: Every group has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and
religion; this right includes freedom to change its belief, and freedom, either alone or
in community with others groups and in public or private, to manifest its belief in
teaching, practice, worship and observance;
Discipline: Every discipline has the right to freedom of paradigm; this right
includes freedom to change its paradigm, and freedom, either alone or, in association with
other disciplines, and in public or private, to manifest its belief in teaching, practice,
worship and observance;
Role: Each of one's roles should have the right to freedom of thought,
conscience and belief; this right should include freedom to change its belief, and
freedom, either alone or in association with other roles and consciously or unconsciously
to manifest its belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Article 19
Individual: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this
right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and
impart information and Ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers;
Collective: Every group has the right to freedom of opinion and
expression, this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to
seek, receive and impart information and ideas though any media and regardless of
frontiers;
Discipline: Every human mode of thought and activity has the right to be freely
expressed; this right includes the freedom to be held without interference and to seek,
receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers;
Role: Each of one's roles should have the right to be freely expressed; this
right should include the freedom to be activated without interference and to seek, receive
and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Article 20
Individual:
- Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association;
- No one many be compelled to belong to an association;
Collective:
- Every group has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association with other
groups;
- No group may be compelled to belong to an association;
Discipline:
- Every discipline has the right to be freely associated with other modes of thought and
activity;
- No discipline may be constrained to integrate itself into the framework of some other
discipline;
Role:
- Each of one's roles should have the right to be freely and peacefully associated with
other modes of thought and activity;
- None of one's roles should be constrained to integrate itself into the perspective of
some other more general role.
Article 21
Individual:
- Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or
through freely chosen representatives;
- Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country;
- The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will
shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal
suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures;
Collective:
- Every group has the right to take part in the government of its country, directly or
through freely chosen representatives;
- Every group has the right of equal consideration in the public selection of appropriate
social organs through which new programmes should be implemented;
- The will of the members shall be the basis of the authority of government of a group;
this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal
and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting
procedures;
Discipline:
- Every mode of thought and activity has the right to be taken into account in the
government of the country, directly or through freely chosen representatives;
- Every mode of thought and activity has the right of equal consideration in the public
selection of the most relevant patterns of operation upon which new programmes should be
based;
- The will of the members shall be the basis of the authority of organization of a
discipline; this will shall be expressed in genuine and continuous debate which shall be
based upon universal and equal ability to submit alternative views;
Role:
- Each of one's roles should have the right to be taken into account in the government of
one's conduct, directly or via the views expressed through a natural hierarchy of roles;
- Each of one's roles should have the right of equal consideration in the conscious
selection of the most relevant modes of thought or activity upon which new action should
be based;
- The consensus expressed by all one's roles should be the basis of the government and
organization of one's conduct; this consensus should be expressed via genuine and
continuous debate which should be based upon the equal ability of all one's roles to
provide alternative perspectives.
Article 22
Individual: Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social
security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international
cooperation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State,
of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity
and the free development of his personality;
Collective: Every group, as a social organ, has the right to social security and
is entitled to realization, through national effort and international and
interorganizational cooperation and in accordance with the organization and resources of
each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for its dignity and
the free development of its potential;
Discipline: Every mode of thought and activity, as a social function and an
extension of a person, has the right to social support and is entitled to realization,
through national effort and international and interdisciplinary cooperation and in
accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and
cultural rights indispensable for its dignity and the free develoPment of its potential;
Role: Each of one's roles, as a psycho-social extension of one's personality,
should have the right to support and should be entitled to realization through the
combined effort of one's associated roles and in accordance with the organisation and
resources of one's personality, of the rights to the psycho- social resources
indispensable for its dignity and the free development of its potential.
Article 23
Individual:
- Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just
and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment;
- Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work;
- Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration insuring for
himself and his family an existence worthy of human. dignity, and supplemented, if
necessary, by other means of social protection;
- Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his
interests;
Collective:
- Every group has the right to productive social activity, to free choice of sphere of
activity, to just and favourable conditions for such activity and to protection against
lack of opportunity for such activity;
- Every group, without any discrimination, has the right to equal remuneration for equal
productive social activity;
- Every socially active group has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring
for itself and its dependent bodies an existence worthy of the dignity of a human group,
and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection;
- Every group has the right to form and join larger groups for the protection of its own
interests;
Discipline:
- Every mode of thought and activity has the right to perform its function within society
under favourable conditions and to protection against inadequate use;
- Every mode of thought and activity, without any discrimination, has the right to an
equal share of available resources for equal productive social activity;
- Every active mode of thought and activity has the right to just and favourable support
ensuring for itself and its dependent disciplines, an efficacity worthy of the dignity of
human activity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection;
- Every mode of thought and activity has the right to formulate and be integrated within
more general modes to provide itself with a broader foundation;
Role:
- Each of one's roles should have the right to perform its function within one's
personality under favourable conditions and to protection against inadequate use;
- Each of one's roles, without any discrimination, should have the right to an equal share
of one's available resources for activity equally productive for one's personality;
- Each of one's roles should have the right to just and favourable support ensuring for
itself and its dependent roles an efficacity worthy of the dignity of human role activity,
and supplemented, if necessary by other means of psycho-social protection;
- Each of one's roles should have the right to formulate and be integrated within more
general roles to provide itself with a broader framework of support.
Article 24
Individual: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable
limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay;
Collective: Every group has the right to periods of re-creation, including
reasonable limitation on length of periods of continuous productive social activity;
Discipline: Every discipline has the right to periods of consolidation and
readjustment, including reasonable limitation on periods of productive social activity;
Role: Each of one's roles should have the right to periods of rest and
readjustment, including reasonable limitation on the length of the periods of activation.
Article 25
Individual:
- Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being
of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and
necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment,
sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood to circumstances
beyond his control;
- Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children,
whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection;
Collective:
- Every group has the right to a standard of organization and operation adequate for its
own health and well- being and that of its dependent bodies, including funds, information,
physical facilities, management assistance and necessary related services, and the right
to support in the event of temporary disuse, malfunction, ineffectiveness, lack of funds
or other inability to perform productive social activity in circumstances beyond its
control;
- Periods of major organizational adjustment to new social problems or opportunities
including mergers and the creation of specialized or regional dependent bodies, are
entitled to special support and assistance. All newly created groups, whether or not their
creation was legitimized by society, shall enjoy the same social protection;
Discipline:
- Every human mode of thought and activity has the right to a standard of organization and
operation adequate for its own health and well-being and that of its dependent
disciplines, including funds, information, physical facilities, assistance in the solution
of internal problems which are the special concern of related disciplines, and the right
to support in the event of temporary disuse, malfunction, ineffectiveness, lack of funds
or other inability to perform productive social activity in circumstances beyond its
control;
- Periods of major conceptual or behavioral adjustment to new social problems or
opportunities, including discipline sub- division and the creation of new or
mission-oriented disciplines, are entitled to special support and assistance. All newly
formulated modes of thought and activity, whether or not their formulation was legitimized
by society, shall enjoy the same protection;
Role:
- Each of one's roles should have the right to a standard of organization and operation
adequate for its health and well-being and that of its dependent roles including
information, assistance in the solution of internal problems, and the right to support in
the event of temporary disuse, malfunction, ineffectiveness, or any inability to perform
productive psycho-social activity in circumstances beyond its control;
- Periods of major role adjustment to new psycho-social problems or opportunities,
including role sub-division and the creation of new or mission-oriented roles, should be
entitled to special attention and assistance. All newly formulated modes of thought and
activity, whether or not one consciously instigated their formulation, should enjoy the
same care and protection.
Article 26
Individual:
- Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the
elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and
professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be
equally accessible to all on the basis of merit;
- Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to
the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote
understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and
shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace;
- Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to
their children;
Collective:
- Every human group has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the
elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. More
specialized education shall be made generally available and advanced education shall be
equally accessible to all groups on the basis of merit;
- Education shall be directed to the full development of the potential of the group and to
the strengthening of respect for the rights, interdependence, and fundamental freedoms of
all organized entities within the social system. It shall promote understanding, tolerance
and cooperation among all groups and shall further the activities of all inter-group
bodies for the maintenance of peace;
- The founder members, or parent bodies, have a prior right to choose the kind of
education to be received by the group they have created;
Discipline:
- Every mode of thought and activity has the right to guidance for its own improvement.
Such guidance shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary
guidance shall be compulsory. More specialized guidance shall be generally available and
advanced guidance shall be equally accessible to all disciplines on the basis of merit.
- Guidance shall be directed to the full development of the potential of the discipline
and to the strengthening of respect for the rights, interdependence, and fundamental
freedoms of all forms of activity within the social system. It shall promote
understanding, tolerance and a spirit of integration among all modes of thought and
activity and shall further the. activities of all transdisciplinary activity as a key to
the maintenance of peace;
- The founding members or parent disciplines have a prior right to choose the kind of
guidance to be received by the discipline they have initiated;
Role:
- Each of one's roles should have the right to guidance and education for its own
improvement. Such guidance should be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental
stages. More specialized guidance should be made generally available and advanced guidance
should be equally accessible to all roles on the basis of merit;
- Guidance should be directed to the full development of the potential of the role and to
the strengthening of respect for the rights, interdependence, and fundamental freedoms of
all forms of one's psycho-social activity. It should promote understanding, tolerance and
a spirit of integration among all one's modes of thought and activity and should further
the activities of role integration as a key to the maintenance of a balanced personality;
- Those of one's roles which generate new roles should have the right to influence the
choice of guidance they receive.
Article 27
Individual:
- Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community to
enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits;
- Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests
resulting from any scientific literary or artistic production of which he is the author;
Collective:
- Every group has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community
and in related social processes and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits;
- Every group has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests
resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which it is the author;
Discipline:
- Every discipline has the right to be freely represented in the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy artistic representation of its preoccupations and to share in
advancement in other disciplines and in its benefits;
- Every discipline has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests
resulting from any of its activity;
Role:
- Each of one's roles should have the right to be freely represented in one's communal
psycho-social activity, to enjoy artistic representation of its preoccupations and to
share in the consequences of the development of other roles;
- Each of one's roles should have the right to the protection of the moral and material
interests resulting from any of its activity.
Article 28
Individual: Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which
the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized;
Collective: Every group is entitled to a social, international and
inter-organizational order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration
can be fully realized;
Discipline: Every discipline is entitled to a social and interdisciplinary order
in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized;
Role: Each of one's roles should be entitled to a psycho- social order and
degree of personality integration in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this
Declaration can be fully realized.
Article 29
Individual:
- Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of
his personality is possible;
- In the exercise of his rights and freedoms everyone shall be subject only to such
limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition
and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of
morality public order and the general welfare in a democratic society;
- These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations
Collective:
- Every group has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of
its potential is possible. Groups that wish to deal responsibly with their social
surrounds should be capable of eliciting and evaluating responses and collaborating with
those bodies which realize that they are affected by the group's activity but which are
ordinarily silent and those which are affected but may not realize it;
- In the exercise of its rights and freedoms every group shall be subject only to such
limitations as are determined by law and the community of organizations solely for the
purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of individuals
and other groups and of meeting the just requirement of morality public order and the
general welfare in a democratic society;
- These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations and the community of organizations.
Discipline:
- Every discipline has duties to the social and intellectual community in which alone the
free and full development of its potential is possible. Disciplines that wish to deal
responsibly with their social and intellectual surrounds should be capable of eliciting
and evaluating responses from and collaborating with those disciplines which realize that
they are affected by the discipline's activity but which are ordinarily silent and those
which are affected but may not realize it;
- In the exercise of its rights and freedoms every discipline shall be subject only to
such limitations as are determined by law and the community of disciplines solely for the
purpose of securing due recognition for the rights and freedoms of individuals, and other
disciplines and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general
welfare in a democratic society;
- These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and
principles of the United Nations and the community of disciplines;
Role:
- Each of one's modes of thought and activity has duties to the network of one's roles in
which alone the free and full development of its potential is possible. Roles that wish to
deal responsibly and sensitively with their psycho-social surrounds should be capable of
eliciting and evaluating responses from, and collaborating with, those roles which realize
that they are affected by the.role,s activity, but which are ordinarily silent, and from
those which are affected but may not realize it;
- In the exercise of its rights and freedoms each of one's modes of thought and activity
should be subject only to such limitations as are determined by one's conscience and the
network of one's roles for the purpose of securing due recognition for rights and freedoms
and of meeting the just requirements of morality, a balanced personality and the general
welfare in a democratic society;
- These rights and freedoms should in no case be exercised contrary to one's conscience or
principles.
Article 30
Individual: Nothing in this Declaration may he interpreted as implying for
any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed
at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
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