Universal Declaration of Human Rights: children's edition
We are all born free and equal. 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.Photograph: John BurninghamWe all have the right to a home, enough money to live on and medical help if we are ill. Music, art, craft and sport are for everyone to enjoy.Photograph: Catherine and Laurence AnholtThere must be proper order so we can all enjoy rights and freedoms in our own country and all over the world.Photograph: Chris Riddell
Nobody has any right to make us a slave. We cannot make anyone else our slave.Photograph: Korky PaulNobody should be blamed for doing something until it is proved. When people say we did a bad thing we have the right to show it is not true.Photograph: Polly DunbarWe all have the right to meet our friends and work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don't want to.Photograph: Satoshi KitamuraWe all have the right to our own way of life and to enjoy the good things that science and learning bring.Photograph: Axel SchefflerNobody has any right to hurt us or to torture us.Photograph: Jane RayWe all have the right to take part in the government of our country. Every grown up should be allowed to choose their own leaders.Photograph: GustiWe all have the right to life and to live in freedom and safety.Photograph: Niki DalyEvery grown up has the right to a job, to a fair wage for their work, and to join a trade union.Photograph: Gilles RapaportWe 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.Photograph: Debi GlioriWe can all ask for the law to help us when we are not treated fairly.Photograph: Ole KönneckeNobody has the right to put us in prison without a good reason, to keep us there or to send us away from our country.Photograph: Piet GroblerWe all have the right to belong to a country.Photograph: Frané Lessac
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