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A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings
On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man
Raoul Vaneigem sets out a new declaration of human rights, by updating earlier declarations - from the French Revolution to the UN declaration in 1948.
These articles are written in a playful, poetic and provocative way that makes a profoundly serious point about the way in which progress towards true human rights is undermined by globalisation.
The author expands and analyses these articles in his new book that was released in December 2000 in French and translated by Liz Heron to English and published at June 2003. Translations to Hebrew and Arabic are overwhelmingly important, contact us if you are interested to take part. |
- Article 1
- All men and women have the right to become human and to be treated as such
- Article 2
- Every human being has the right to life
- Article 3
- Every human being has the right to indepedence
- Article 4
- Every human being has the right to knowledge
- Article 5
- Every human being has the right to happiness
- Article 6
- Every human being has the right to dispose freely of his or her time
- Article 7
- Every human being has the right to move around as and how her or she thinks fit
- Article 8
- Every human being has the right to the freely availabe necessities of life
- Article 8a
- Every human being has the right to a home in keeping with his or her desires
- Article 8b
- Every human being has the right to healthy natural food
- Article 8c
- Every human being has the right to health
- Article 8d
- Every human being has the right to comfort and luxury
- Article 8e
- Every human being has the right to free modes of transport set up by and for the collectivity
- Article 8f
- Every human being has the right of free access to natural resources and sources of energy
- Article 9
- Every human being has the right to exercise permanent control over scientific experimentation so as to ensure that it serves the interests of human beings and not those of the market
- Article 10
- Every human being has the right to take delight in themselves, in others and in the world
- Article 10a1
- Every human being has the right to self-alliance
- Article 10a2
- Every human being has the right to be themselves and to cultivate awareness of their own singularity
- Article 10a3
- Every human being has the right to authenticity
- Article 10b1
- Every human being has the right to alliance with his or her own kind
- Article 10b2
- Every human being has the right to association by affinity
- Article 10b3
- Every human being has the right to replace stae governments with a world federation of small local collecctivities in which the quality of the individuals guarantees the humanity of societies
- Article 10c
- Every human being has the right to an alliance with nature
- Article 10d
- Every human being has the right to be reconciled with his or her animal nature
- Article 11
- Every human being has the right to build their own destiny
- Article 12
- Every human being has the right to create and to self-creation
- Article 13
- Every human being possesses the right to step in and intervene wherever human progress is threatened
- Article 14
- Every human being has the right to bend towards life what was turned towards death
- Article 15
- Every human being has the right to improve his or her environment for the sake of a better life
- Article 16
- Every human being has the right to consideration for his or her sesitivity
- Article 17
- Every human being has the right to feel the movements of affection and disaffection which are inherent in the flux of passions and the freedoms of love
- Article 18
- Every human being has the right to a natural life and a natural death
- Article 19
- Every human being has the right to base the diversity of his or her desires on the plurality of life
- Article 20
- Every human being has the right to a choice between activity and rest
- Article 21
- Every human being has the right to be idle
- Article 22
- Every human being has the right to striving and perserance
- Article 23
- Every human being has the right to his or her personal sense of beauty
- Article 24
- Every human being has the right to progress and to regress
- Article 25
- Every human being has the right to stray, to get lost and to find themselves
- Article 26
- Every human being has the right to vanquish terror and tame fear
- Article 27
- Every human being has the right to oppose threats
- Article 28
- Every human being has the right to make mistakes and to correct them
- Article 29
- Every human being has the right to an absolutle freedom of opinion and expression
- Article 30
- Every human being has the right to criticise and contradict what may seem most certain or what passes for a fundemental truth
- Article 31
- Every human being has the right to hold nothing sacred
- Article 32
- Every human being has the right to change
- Article 33
- Every human being has the right to distintiation
- Article 34
- Every human being has the right to pleasures of each generation
- Article 35
- Every human being has the right to reject suffering
- Article 36
- Every human being has the right to give and give of themselves without sacrifice
- Article 37
- Every human being has the right to avoid frustration by replacing dissatisfaction with insatiability
- Article 38
- Every human being has the right to thier doubts and to their certainties
- Article 39
- Every human being has the right to excess and to moderation
- Article 40
- Every human being has the right to diversion
- Article 41
- Every human being has the right to freedoms of dreaming and imagination
- Article 42
- Every human being has the right to anger
- Article 43
- Every human being has the right to body's well-being
- Article 44
- Every human being has the right to adorn themselves as they see fit
- Article 45
- Every human being has the right to their lies and their truths
- Article 46
- Every human being has the right to open themselves and close themselves to the world
- Article 47
- Every human being has the right to express or to keep silent about their emotions, their desires and their thoughts
- Article 48
- Every human being has the right to attain artistic expression
- Article 49
- Every human being has the right to the free exercise of goodness
- Article 50
- Every human being has the right to innocence
- Article 51
- Every human being has the right to count on the violence of of life in order to ward off the violence of death
- Article 52
- Every human being has the right to restore to the will to live the vital energy usurped by the will to power
- Article 53
- Every human being has the right to protect and to be protected
- Article 54
- Every human being has the right to have children for their own happiness and for the sake of those who are born
- Article 55
- Every human being has the right to desire what seems beyond the realm of the possible
- Article 56
- Every human being has the right to govern their own moods, whims and fixations without having to impose them on anyone else or be subject to those of other people
- Article 57
- Every human being has the right to the poetry of existence
- Article 58
- Every human being has the right to play on and make light of the actions and the values of the old world
- Raoul Vaneigem
- 11 December, 2000
- Additional sources about Human Rights Declaration
- » French Revolution
- » UN Universal Human Rights Declaration
- » Raoul Vaneigem biography
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