Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: text and meaning
«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.»
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948, after the horrors of two world wars. It has 30 articles and is the most translated document in the world.
The first article contains all the others. “Free and equal”: no one is worth more than another, by birth, colour, religion or passport. “In dignity and rights”: rights are not earned or bought, we have them because we are human. “Reason and conscience”: we are the only animal that can look at its own instinct and say no. “A spirit of brotherhood”: the other is not a stranger, but someone like me.
It is disarmingly simple: if you respect the human being you do not make war, you fight hunger, you care for your land. We had already written the solution. We forgot it.
EXISTO brings it back to the starting point: whoever says “I exist” receives the passport of humankind, with Article 1 printed inside.
Sources: Read the full Declaration (UN)
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Do you exist? Say it too.
EXISTO does one thing: it lets you say it. You receive the passport of humankind and join the line of those who are here. No ads, no rankings, thirty seconds.
I am a human being. You are a human being.