Human Rights
This souvenir sheet commemorates and contains part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It’s a key and somewhat a founding resolution of the U.N. Former U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the committee that wrote the document. All of the member states voted for the resolution, except for the Soviet Union and its affiliated countries. It’s believed that the Soviets didn’t approve because of language allowing people to leave any country in which they reside, as well as criticisms of countries that violate its citizens rights.
The articles are written on U.N. stamps – in English, French, and German– and can be found on upcoming pages of this album, and in the Geneva and Vienna albums:
Articles 1 & 2 is on dignity, liberty, and equality of all people;
Articles 3 & 4 is about the right to life, liberty, and security, as well as against slavery;
Articles 5 & 6 is against torture and abusive punishment, and the right as a person;
Articles 7 & 8 is on protection from discrimination by law and by courts;
Articles 9 & 10 prohibits arbitrary arrest, imprisonment, or exile, and is about the right to fair and public trial;
Articles 11 & 12 states that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and has a right to a fair trial, and also that everyone has the right to privacy;
Articles 13 & 14 is on freedom of movement within a country, and the right to leave and to seek asylum;
Articles 15 & 16 says everyone has the right to nationality and to change nationality, as well as the right to marry freely and all have the same rights as spouses;
Articles 17 & 18 talks about the right of all to own property and not have it arbitrarily taken away from them, plus the freedom of regligon and the right to worship publicly;
Articles 19 & 20 is on freedom of expression and to assemble;
Articles 21 & 22 says all have the right to vote and participate in government, and the right to social security, including economic and cultural security;
Articles 23 & 24 says everyone has the right to work and be paid without discrimination, and the right to form and join labor unions, and they also have the right to leisure time, to limits on the amount of hours in a day and days in a week they must work, and to paid holidays;
Articles 25 & 26 is on the universal right to health, a basic standard of living, and child care and education;
Articles 27 & 28 says all have the right to participate in cultural events, to enjoy the arts, to benefit from scientific advancements, and the right to social and international order; and
Articles 29 & 30 say that everyone has the right to be involved in their communities, and that no state may go against any of the rights in the Declaration.
Note
This souvenir sheet was issued in Geneva. It shows the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in French. The U.N. has translated and published the entire document into over five hundred languages. The same souvenir sheet was issued in English in New York and in German in Vienna.
Contains 1 spots: own 1 – 1 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
Declaration of Human Rights
✓ |
172 |
Declaration of Human Rights |
2 (dec 1988) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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