Declares:
Article 1
Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to
strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at
the national and international levels.
Article 2
1. Each State has a prime responsibility and duty to protect, promote and implement
all human rights and fundamental freedoms, inter alia, by adopting such steps as may
be necessary to create all conditions necessary in the social, economic, political and
other fields, as well as the legal guarantees required to ensure that all persons under its
jurisdiction, individually and in association with others, are able to enjoy all those
rights and freedoms in practice.
2. Each State shall adopt such legislative, administrative and other steps as may be
necessary to ensure that the rights and freedoms referred to in the present Declaration
are effectively guaranteed.
Article 3
Domestic law consistent with the Charter of the United Nations and other
international obligations of the State in the field of human rights and fundamental
freedoms is the juridical framework within which human rights and fundamental
freedoms should be implemented and enjoyed and within which all activities referred
to in the present Declaration for the promotion, protection and effective realization of
those rights and freedoms should be conducted.
Article 4
Nothing in the present Declaration shall be construed as impairing or contradicting the
purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations or as restricting or
derogating from the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,2 the
International Covenants on Human Rights3 and other international instruments and
commitments applicable in this field.
Article 5
For the purpose of promoting and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms,
everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, at the national and
international levels:
(a) To meet or assemble peacefully;
(b) To form, join and participate in non-governmental organizations, associations or
groups;
(c) To communicate with non-governmental or intergovernmental organizations.
Article 6
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