We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way.

These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences.

We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety.

Nobody has any right to make us a slave. We cannot make anyone our slave.

Nobody has any right to hurt us or to torture us.

I am a person just like you!

The law is the same for everyone. It must treat us all fairly.

We can all ask for the law to help us when we are not treated fairly.

Nobody has the right to put us in prison without good reason and keep us there, or to send us away from our country.

If we are put on trial this should be in public. The people who try us should not let anyone tell them what to do.

Nobody should be blamed for doing something until it is proven. When people say we did a bad thing we have the right to show it is not true.

Nobody should try to harm our good name. Nobody has the right to come into our home, open our letters, or bother us or our family without a good reason.

We all have the right to go where we want in our own country and to travel as we wish.

If we are frightened of being badly treated in our own country, we all have the right to run away to another country to be safe.

We all have the right to belong to a country.

Every grown-up has the right to marry and have a family if they want to. Men and women have the same rights when they are married, and when they are separated.

Everyone has the right to own things or share them. Nobody should take our things from us without a good reason.

We all have the right to believe in what we want to believe, to have a religion, or to change it if we want.

We all have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people.

We all have the right to meet our friends and to work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don’t want to.

We all have the right to take part in the government of our country. Every grown-up should be allowed to choose their own leaders.

We all have the right to affordable housing, medicine, education, and childcare, enough money to live on and medical help if we are ill or old.

Every grown-up has the right to do a job, to a fair wage for their work, and to join a trade union.

We all have the right to rest from work and to relax.

We all have the right to a good life. Mothers and children, people who are old, unemployed or disabled, and all people have the right to be cared for.

Education is a right. Primary school should be free. We should learn about the United Nations and how to get on with others. Our parents can choose what we learn.

Copyright is a special law that protects one’s own artistic creations and writings; others cannot make copies without permission. We all have the right to our own way of life and to enjoy the good things that art, science and learning bring.

There must be proper order so we can all enjoy rights and freedoms in our own country and all over the world.

We have a duty to other people, and we should protect their rights and freedoms.

Human rights are inherent and no one can take them away.