Reading room

This is a place for everything from A to Z about tolerance and human rights—how does this magical ability to see the world of the other ‘in his shoes’ look from close-by, what are your inviolable human rights and freedoms, as well as fundamental responsibilities through which you protect the rights and freedoms of the other. And Toolbox—you probably already guessed—is this corner in the reading room, where through games, tasks and exciting experiences you will develop your magical ability to get along with those different from you.

School of Tolerance

Each article you open in this section is a door to the various nuances and aspects of tolerance and mutual understanding with your relatives, friends and strangers—whether at home, at school, at university, at work, on the street or in the square, in the big city or the small village.

Rights

Human rights are the fundamental rights that everyone in the world receives at birth and until their last breath. They are based on such shared values as dignity, honesty, equality, respect and independence—values that are defined and protected by law.

Freedoms

The basic human freedoms of the individual or a group—freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of desire, and freedom of fear—can never be taken away from us, although they are sometimes restricted from the outside world.

Responsibilities

The relationship between you and the other is based on rights and responsibilities: although, in fact, only one article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, every right is in fact accompanied by a responsibility. If we have the right to life, then we have the responsibility to respect life. Every human being has the right to a happy and healthy life: in this way we are obliged to create conditions for others around us to have such a life as well.

Toolbox

Once you open this box, you will find in it a bunch of treasures—ways to develop your sensitivity, senses and mental attitude to the different, foreign, colorful, challenging, conscious and unconscious ones; you will find yourself more open to the world and people. For this purpose, we have prepared for you all kinds of tools under the non-formal learning methodology: situational, role and logical cases, games, videos and manuals, methodologies and information resources (Council of Europe, European Solidarity Corps, Volunteer Cooperative, etc.).
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Article 9: Freedom from Arbitrary Legal Prosecution

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. A person can not be arrested, detained, or exiled without a good reason to do so. This is a security for all humans, so no one should live in …

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Article 10: Right to Fair Public Hearing

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. A fair hearing means that an unbiased …

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Article 11: Innocent until Proven Guilty

Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. No one shall be held …

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Article 12: Freedom from Interference

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. This article …

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Article 13: Freedom of Movement

Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. This essentially means that everyone has the …

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Article 14: Asylum from Prosecution

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

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Article 15: Right to a Nationality.

Everyone has the right to a nationality. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality. The right to a nationality has been described as the “right to have rights”. Nationality is …

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Article 16: Right to Marriage.

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 the marriage, and at its …

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Article 17: Right to Property.

Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property. The right to own property and to not be arbitrarily deprived of it is yet another …

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Article 18: Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion.

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 …

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Article 19: Freedom of Opinion and Expression.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. “If we do not believe …

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Article 20: Right to Peaceful Assembly and Association.

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. No one may be compelled to belong to an association. Freedom of peaceful assembly and association ensures that people can gather publicly and privately. These assemblies can be used …

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