should be voted for regularly and voting should be secret. You should get a vote and all votes
should be equal. You also have the same right to join the public service as anyone else.
Article 22
The society in which you live should help you to develop and to make the most of all the
advantages (culture, work, social welfare) that are offered to you and to all the men and
women in your country.
Article 23
You have the right to work, to be free to choose your work, and to get a salary that allows you
to live and support your family. If a man and a woman do the same work, they should get the
same pay. All people who work have the right to join together to defend their interests.
Article 24
Each work day should not be too long, since everyone has the right to rest and should be able
to take regular paid holidays.
Article 25
You have the right to have whatever you need so that you and your family: do not fall ill; do not
go hungry; have clothes and a house; and are helped if you are out of work, if you are ill, if you
are old, if your wife or husband is dead, or if you do not earn a living for any other reason you
cannot help. Both a mother who is going to have a baby and her baby should get special help.
All children have the same rights, whether or not the mother is married.
Article 26
You have the right to go to school and everyone should go to school. Primary schooling should
be free. You should be able to learn a profession or continue your studies as far as you wish. At
school, you should be able to develop all your talents and you should be taught to get on with
others, whatever their race, their religion or the country they come from. Your parents have the
right to choose how and what you will be taught at school.
Article 27
You have the right to share in your community’s arts and sciences, and in any good they do.
Your works as an artist, a writer or a scientist should be protected, and you should be able to
benefit from them.
Article 28
To make sure that your rights will be respected, there must be an “order” that can protect
them. This “order” should be local and worldwide.
Article 29
You have duties towards the community within which your personality can fully develop. The
law should guarantee human rights. It should allow everyone to respect others and to be
respected.
Article 30
No society and no human being in any part of the world should act in such a way as to destroy
the rights that you have just been reading about.