Article 20 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1. Any propaganda for war shall be prohibited by law. 2. Any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence shall be prohibited by law. See also: Article 19 ICCPR
Article 19 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference. 2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or…
Article 18 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to…
Article 17 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) View Post 1. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honour and reputation. 2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.…
Article 16 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Everyone shall have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. See also: Article 15 ICCPR
Article 15 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1 . No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed…
Article 14 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1. All persons shall be equal before the courts and tribunals. In the determination of any criminal charge against him, or of his rights and obligations in a suit at law, everyone shall be entitled to a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent…
Article 13 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) An alien lawfully in the territory of a State Party to the present Covenant may be expelled therefrom only in pursuance of a decision reached in accordance with law and shall, except where compelling reasons of national security otherwise require, be allowed to submit the…
Article 12 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1. Everyone lawfully within the territory of a State shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and freedom to choose his residence. 2. Everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his own. 3. The above-mentioned rights shall not be…
Article 11 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) No one shall be imprisoned merely on the ground of inability to fulfil a contractual obligation. See also: Article 10 ICCPR