THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS - ABOUT THE PRIDE TO BE FRENCH.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948
If this statement is truly universal then why North Korea and other countries do not apply it?
Article 1.
· 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.
We recall that France has conducted a war of reconquest in Vietnam when it proclaimed its independence. Also in August 61 It is the massacre of Algerians in Paris one of the largest police blunder. A fine example of the dignity and rights of people ..
Regarding the spirit of fraternity, in 2002 the National Front received 20% of the votes, a sign of brotherhood to the French. For years the FN and its leader utter disgrace and do with impunity. According to this text, these "fascist" parties should not even exist ...
Article 2.
· 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 the 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.
For example, everyone knows that people with disabilities, people with HIV are not discriminated in employment. Regarding gender, we can say that despite all, France is a sexist country. An example, try to find the equivalent for "whore" for a man, or pay for equal work is lower for women ...
But let us remember the conflict between Algerian and French wanted "French Algeria"
Article 3.
· Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Still in Algeria the French soldiers did not hesitate to use the "gégène" (torture which involved sending electric shocks to prisoners to provide information). Not to mention the case in 1986, of Malik Ousékine student "swarthy" which borders a demo, which he did not participate, has been pursued by police and beaten to death. The scene has been discribed by a witness. Finally note the problem of political prisoners.
Article 4.
· No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
That is why France has waged a war of conquest in Vietnam and Indochina more generally (1946-1954) without forgetting modern slavery in which people close their eyes, and Amnesty International condemns ...
Article 5.
· No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
During the war in Iraq, a woman commander of a part of the military has been photographed with their prisoners inflicting degrading treatment. At her trial his lawyer plead insanity to avoid prison for her. For France can still recall the Algeria war or August 61 in Paris.
Article 6.
· Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
Each one need a fair trial and it is not always the case.
Article 7.
· 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.
It is not very long on the road a man was taken ill due to diabetes. He settled on the hard shoulder and wants to request emergency assistance. The law enforcement approach and leaves him no time to explain and beat up. He goes home, takes photos and tries a lawsuit. Where is the trial? ? RAS
Article 8.
· 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.
Article 9.
· No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
But then why are there political prisoners?
Article 10.
· 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.
But we know very well that a "color" person will be judged more harshly.
Article 11.
· (1) 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.
· (2) 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 the penal offence was committed.
Article 12.
· 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 the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
We also know that police checks always happen and no burr is made ... You can recall the arrival of Sarkozy in cities with cameras at the upcoming campaign ...
Article 13.
· (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
· (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
If we can circulate freely why Black people are more controlled than others (sometimes several times a day)?
Article 14.
· (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
This is without counting the number of undocumented arrivals once in France are being exploited by unscrupulous people. In addition the law in France is becoming more repressive.
· (2) 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.
Article 15.
· (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
· (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
But the undocumented must live 5 years illegallity may be regulated ...
Article 16.
· (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
However we see everywhere that the father was always more difficult to obtain custody of children.
· (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
· (3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
This article raises the question of gay marriage: an orphan would it not be more happy if adopted by a homosexual couple? I think so. Yet there are still problems in France on the subject ...
Article 17.
· (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
But I do not think all people in France have a house and that make it their pleasure to sleep outside.
· (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Those "stranger" are sometimes discriminated to find home.
Article 18.
· 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.
So why can not we go to school with religious symbols (cross, sailing ...)? The article don't specify not to do so.
Article 19.
· 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.
If anyone has the right to freedom of expression why censorship exist and why when Sarkozy said that people in cities are "scum" is not worried then that a person who insulted him go in prison for that ... ?
Article 20.
· (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
· (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
This article is contradictory to the previous because the guns can be implied in Article 19. I do not say that we need to take up arms to defend his ideas, but I note that there are contradictions in the text.
Article 21.
· (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
· (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
· (3) 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.
For each person has access to public service requires that education be the same for everyone and this is not the case.
About elections can see they are sometimes "faked" (see the movie Poison d'Avril on the 2002 french elections) Also "people" is not consulted for all ... then one item not yet implemented.
Article 22.
· Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation 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.
But the undocumented are not allowed because someone found it is not part of society ...
Article 23.
· (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Which protection on unemployment in France because there are 5 million of unemployed people and long-term unemployment is higher than other industrialized countries (42% against 32%)?
· (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
· (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
· (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Except that when a union member and that superiors are aware, employees have difficulty (no promotion, no salary increase ...).
Article 24.
· Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
What is a reasonable limitation of working 40, 35 or 32 hours - according to the presidential candidates?
Article 25.
· (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of 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 in circumstances beyond his control.
Despite all its fine words, all people in France do not live decently.
· (2) 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.
Article 26.
· (1) 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.
Access to higher education does not equal open plain to everyone because some families can not provide higher education to their children because they may not have the means.
· (2) 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.
We can do higher education and to have ideas contrary to this present declaration, as shown above.
· (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27.
· (1) 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.
This implies that scientific progress is good. The atomic bomb is a scientific progress ....
· (2) 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.
Article 28.
· Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.
Several countries do not comply with this statement and not least (France in the first place ...)
Article 29.
· (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
Not very accurate all this ...
· (2) 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.
But we have seen above that several human freedoms are violated and the sanctions for the same offense was not necessarily the same as people (skin color, social status ...)
· (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
But have we not seen that the UN has become obscelète to fight against the U.S. (war in Iraq, for example)?
Article 30.
· Nothing in this Declaration may be 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.
No, but many items are being violated every day (almost all!) They do not need that.
We realize that there are not too proud to be French ...
SPIKE. (2006)
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