The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Humberto Cantú Rivera is Professor at the Faculty of Law and Director of the Human Rights and Business Institute of the University of Monterrey (UDEM, Mexico). He has authored, edited or co-edited nine books in Spanish and English, including The Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council (Intersentia, 2015), Derechos humanos y empresas: Reflexiones desde América Latina (IIDH, 2017), and Private International Law Aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility (with Catherine Kessedjian; Springer, 2020).

Foreword

Völker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights



Acknowledgments


Notes on Contributors


The 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  Humberto Cantú Rivera



1  Dignity and Equality

  Francisco J. Rivera Juaristi



2 Non-discrimination

  Aderomola Adeola



3 The Right to Life, Liberty and Security

  Danielle Anne Pamplona



4 The Prohibition of Slavery

  Daria Davitti



5 The Prohibition of Torture

  Etienne Henry



6 Recognition before the Law

  Alonso E. Illueca



7 Equality before the Law and Equal Protection of the Law

  Dorothy Estrada-Tanck



8 The Right to an Effective Remedy

  Humberto Cantú Rivera



9 The Prohibition of Arbitrary Detention

  José Antonio Guevara Bermúdez



10 The Right to a Fair Trial

  Dinah Shelton



11 The Principle of Legality

  Andrew Novak



12 The Rights to Privacy and Family Life

  Audrey Lebret



13 Freedom of Movement and the Right of Residence

  Karlos A. Castilla Juárez



14 The Right to Asylum

  Javier Tous



15 The Right to a Nationality

  Leonardo S. C. Castilho



16 The Right to Marry and to Found a Family

  Ana Cláudia Ruy Cardia Atchabahian



17 The Right to Property

  Carolina Olarte-Bácares



18 Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion

  Pablo Contreras and Belén Saavedra



19 Freedom of Opinion and Expression

  David Kaye and Azin Tadjdini



20 The Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association

  Alejandra Ancheita and Michael Rolla Negrete Cárdenas



21 Political Rights

  Anna Glazewski



22 The Right to Social Security

  Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona



23 The Right to Work

  Larry Catá Backer



24 The Right to Just and Favourable Conditions of Work

  Nicolas Bueno



25 The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living The Right to Housing

  Jessie Hohmann



25.1 The Right to an Adequate Standard of Living The Right to Food

  Ana María Suárez Franco



25.2 The Right to Social Security

  Virginia Bras Gomes



26 The Right to Education

  Daniel Iglesias Márquez



27 Cultural Rights

  Daniel Cerqueira



28 The Right to a Social and International Order

  Emmanuel Decaux



29.1 Duties to the Community

  Laurent Trigeaud



29.2 Limitations in the Exercise of Rights

  Alfredo Crosato Neumann



30 The Non-abuse Clause

  Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli



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