December 10 is Human Rights Day, a global day of observance, on which countries around the world honor the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in the wake of World War II.
Before you watch this video, consider the statements below. Check off the statements you think are included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which the United States is a signatory.
1. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
2. Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
3. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
4. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
5. 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.
6. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
7. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
8. Everyone has the right to equal access to public service in his country.
9. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
10. 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.
To determine the level of your knowledge concerning universal human rights, view the video at the beginning of this post, or read the Declaration itself.
Give yourself one point for each item that you correctly identified as being included in the UDHR and subtract one point for each item that you incorrectly included in the list.
Please let us know how you did.
Kathie Malley-Morrison, Professor of Psychology