Articles 13-18

Article 13

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

You have the right to move freely inside your country. You have the right to leave your country and to return.

Burma is guilty of violations of the freedom of movement. Villagers were not allowed to leave their villages and were further restricted by the presence of landmines.

http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=1170

Everyone has the right to seek protection in another country, unless you are guilty of non-political crimes or violations of rights.

This article disscusses the prominent role of asylum in international law.

http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1342&context=djcil

All men and women of legal age have the right to legally marry and have a family with full consent and protection from the government.

The marriage of underage teenage girls without consent is a human rights issue around the world.

http://sls.sagepub.com/content/14/1/17.short

Everyone has the right to belong to a country.

This article discusses the right to a nationality of children, especially with regards to birth registration.

http://www.unicef.org/pon96/coname.htm

Article 16

1. Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 15

1. Everyone has the right to a nationality.

2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has 30 articles. They are intended to provide a baseline or guide for basic human rights. All people are entitled to the rights listed in the UDHR.

Article 14

1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

2. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 17

1. Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

2. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Everyone has the right to own and keep their own property.

In Kenya, many women have experience loss of property rights, leading to a life in the slums.

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/kenya0303/kenya0303.pdf

Article 18

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Everyone has the right to freedom of religion, religious expression, and religious practice.

This right is frequently violated in North Korea, where following of the state cult is mandatory.

http://www.uscirf.gov/countries-and-issues/east-asia/north-korea