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Charter of Rights

(In Plain Language)

  • The Right to Life
  • The Right to Freedom
  • The Right to control what happens to your body
  • The Right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law
  • The Right of choice
  • The Right to informed consent (to know your choices)
  • The Right to have things explained to you
  • The Right to be heard
  • The Right to see a lawyer of other advisor
  • The Right to have enough money to buy food, have a place to live, and decent clothes
  • The Right to proper medical care
  • The Right to charge someone if they hurt you or take something of yours
  • The Right to be educated
  • The Right to apply for a job and be taken seriously
  • The Right to safe working and living conditions

Click here to read the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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