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Manual of Disobedience	Occupy Central with Love & Peace (OCLP)	7045
Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of August 12, 1949	Democracia Participativa	21736
US Dept. of the Army Benchbook for trial of Enemy POWs	US Army	15244
Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture	Association for the Prevention of Torture	15464
Human Rights Council	Democracia Participativa	16688
Defending Civil Society Report and New Toolkit for NGOs	World Movement for Democracy	15853
2012 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom	US Commission on International Religious Freedom	22601
Torture, inhuman or degrading treatment	Human Rights Education Association	16334
What are Human Rights?	Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights	15837
Commentary to the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms	Democracia Participativa	15437
UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment	United Nations	16995
Analysis on the Human Rights Council performance since 2006	Jo Becker	16000
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights	United Nations	15350
US Bill of Rights	Congress of the United States	15650
American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man	Inter-American Commission on Human Rights	17000
Charter 08 (China - Dec.10/2008)	Democracia Participativa	15904

If men are not kept straight by duty, they must be by fear. The more they are kept by fear, the less they are free. The greater the strength of duty, the greater the Liberty.

Lord Acton (1834-1902)

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“Human rights” is a delicate and often controversial term in today’s interconnected world. We often hear it on the news: Nations violating citizens’ human rights and disagreements about what constitutes a human rights violation. However, legal rights and human rights are distinguished by the fact that legal rights are granted and human rights are intrinsic.

In order to safeguard our human rights and to hold violators accountable, it is vitally important to remember the details of our basic human rights. Each of the 30 articles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses an inherent, non-negotiable right and freedom for all of humankind. It is in this spirit that American University’s international affairs graduate program created the following infographic to illustrate each article of the Declaration in just a few words and an image.