There are 30 Human Rights Can anyone tell us what they are?

[Rob Northall]

We need to find out what the 30 Human Rights are and how many have and still are being Breached?

If we want to take this to the European Courts?

[dorris lloyd]

1.Everyone has the right tofreedom of opinnion and expression. This right includes freedom to hold opinnions
without interference ,and to seek ,recieve and impart information and ideas through any media and reguardless of frontiers.
2all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They they are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in the spirit of brotherhood.
3. Noone shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
4 Everyone has a right to recognition as a person before the law.
4. Nothing in this decralation may be interpeted as implying for any state, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to proform any act aimed at the distruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
5 Everyone has the right to a standered of living adaquet for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family,including food ,clothing,housing, and medical care and social services, and the right to security
in the event of unemployment, sickness ,dissability, widowhood, old age,or other lack of livlihood in cercomstances beyond his control.
6. Everyone has the right to education, education shall be free ,at least in the fundamental and elementary stages,Elementry education shall be compulsury. Technical and professonal education, shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessable to all on the basis of merit
6. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the seregthing of respect of human rights and fundemental freedoms. It shall promote understanding tolorance and friendships
among nations ,racial or religous groups and shall further the activites of the united nations for the maintance of peace.

[Margaret Thornton]

Human Rights... Well said Doris, we are at one with this one. Maggie

[Rob Northall]

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.

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.

Article 3.

* Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.

* No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.

* No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.

* Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Article 14.

* (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
* (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.

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.
* (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.

Article 17.

* (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
* (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
* (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.

Article 24.

* Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

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.
* (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.
* (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.
* (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.
* (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.

Article 29.

* (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
* (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.
* (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

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.

[Geraldine ,O]

My human rights were breached , I am Registered Disabled as Hearing Impaired under the chronically Sick and Disabled, resulted by being boxed around the head by Nuns and staff as a child because this problem started when I was aged about 9,I was always being hit and being called stupid because I couldn't hear what was been said unless the Nun's or staff  came close to my face but often this was worse because they shouted in my ear which was painful,   . NO provision was made for me in order that I could tell what questions  people were throwing at me with speed ,+ they all sat sideways to me so I could not lip read even if I tried + the cellings were low which effects the Octave in the room the outcome was I couldn't hear what was being said as I knew they were throwing questions FAST not allowing me to digest what they might be saying .+ I was sat opposite a large window with the Glare of light  in my face they just did not care + no medical records were presented.I also suffer from Arthritis , the only time during a hearing when a Large built well fed looking hard Man Leaned toward me with a harsh bully'ish expression on his face  which scared me ,with a loud voice that allowed me to watch what he was saying He >was saying >>Your Father Was A Drunk.I couldn't believe it I was shocked at this ignorant attack I knew my Father was  not a Drunk ,he had just come out of the army and was working hard but needed a bit of time to sort his life out in order that he could look after his 6 children alone ,indeed he applied to get my siblings home >to his own house which he owned just 2 weeks after we were detained by the court BUT HIS APPLICATION WAS TURNED DOWN BY THE STATE,even though we had many extended family members willing to help him, as For myself  Dad applied also for my release and again was refused by the state , This was coming a Man who probably Never been near Industrial Child Prisons and was being Paid handsomely  to Insult me and my Family. All in the name of the COWARDLY  INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT and SADISTIC  Money Grubbing RELIGIOUS ORDERS  Who ran those places thus DISTROYING SO MANY IRISH CHILDREN AND FAMILY  LIVES. SO MUCH FOR SURVIVORS HUMAN RIGHTS ?THEY HAVE BEEN TOTALLY IGNORED BY THE CORUPT IRISH GOVERNMENT.

[Rob Northall]

Geraldine, Thank You for Posting! I'm sure your Experience will strike a Chord with many Members!!

[Geraldine ,O]

I should think most children when they left Goldenbridge ( and other Industrial Schools )had a hearing problem from been bashed around the head so often , Ear infections were common children cried in pain with puss running out of their ears and nothing was ever done about it , how many were driven mad or half mad from the pain and abuse. how many ended up in Mental  Hospital's suffering from depression from the Abuse?? how many ended up with NO teeth from negligence by not been provided with basic oral care like tooth  brushes and toothpaste many suffered from gum decease , eye infection's, Boil's on the skin, not to mention health problems from lack of proper nourishment ,Lack of Sunlight, lack of proper fitting shoes , lack of warm clothes, And a bent politician believes he said sorry is going to make everything alright then ,IS THAT IT?, SORRY is just a word. action is needed by way of proper compensation, NOT GROUPS.

[Catherine Roberts]

Hi Cathriona thanks for the information regarding the redress board.

I have sent Gerry Finn an E-mail hope you receive a response soon.

Take care and thanks Catherine.

[pauline jackson]

Well one thing that stuck in my mind when i got my records was . The Nuns have accepted to have her .IF this was so why were we taken to court and condemmed to industriel schools. Since we are all lumped in together there is no mention of industriel schools as such. It was mainly because of family problems that we found ourselves there. We never even missed school because many were too young.. Reform schools are mentioned. residential. But not the places we were sent to because the nuns had made a decision. Its haunts me. I will never forget going back to goldenbridge. And my Dad had travelled such a long way to be there.