Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Gunnar Myrdal

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by Gunner Myrdal
Noted Swedish Sociologist and Economist [January 1951]

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed by the United Nations just two years ago, is one of the world’s great documents.

This United Nations declaration of the inalienable rights of men distinguishes itself from its illustrious predecessors in many important ways. One of the Declaration’s most significant features is that it adds economic and social rights to the classical political rights proclaimed during the Eighteenth Century.

The world has at last recognized that poverty, like unjust imprisonment, social insecurity like the denial of political and spiritual freedom, degrades and destroys the dignity and worth of the human person and prejudices the welfare of the community.

Here are some of the minimum rights which are now declared to belong to you and me, to all men and women, wherever they may be:

“Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security.

“Everyone, has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

“Everyone, without discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

“Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration insuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

“Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests”.

These words of the Declaration establish a new moral basis for the struggle against hunger and despair. They provide a humane standard by which the welfare of individuals and masses may be measured and promoted.

And here are more of the economic and social rights which the United Nations Declaration proclaims as belonging to you and me, to all human beings:

“Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family.”

These are our minimum goals. They will not be easy to reach; but could there be happiness, or real peace, without bread, work and rest, without minimum economic security for all men and women and their children? Then these basic human rights are worth working for; it is a common struggle that links us with our neighbors; not neighbors only in our own countries—for, as this Declaration shows, all citizens in all countries are neighbors.

I have stressed the importance of the economic and social rights of individuals; but all of us know that these rights will not be enjoyed in practice unless the other rights proclaimed in the Declaration—such as the right to political democracy and to spiritual freedom—are also enjoyed by all people everywhere.

The great task is now established: to give these newly proclaimed principles meaning, to put them in practice in every part of the world. And that depends in large measure on the daily conduct of each and all of us. For it is by respecting and promoting these rights for others, as well as for ourselves, that their observance will become matters of law and fact. In this Universal Declaration are the ideas that can unite individuals, families, towns, nations and societies into a free and creative world community.

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