With the view to provide necessary requirements for people’s growth and developments and to make the government aware of their duties towards the citizens of their respective countries, UNO planned to declare Human Rights to be followed by its member countries. It was the tireless efforts of Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of the former US president, Franklin D Roosevelt which resulted the issue of first Universal Declarations of the Human Rights by the UN on 10th December 1948. It contains altogether 30 articles under which each and every right of human being is recognized as fundamental. Among them, ten provisions are mentioned below:

1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
4. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude. Slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.
5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
6. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
7. Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
8. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, or to attacks upon his honor and reputation.
10. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.