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Ban on discrimination (Johan Bavman/UNICEF) Keystone

Right to live (Krishnendu Halder/Reuters) Reuters

Right to health (Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella) Keystone

Right to education (Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo) Keystone

Right to food (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe) Keystone

Right to asylum (Antonino Condorelli/Reuters) Keystone

Right to privacy (Reuters/David Moir) Reuters

Right to freedom of opinion and expression (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Reuters

Right to work, freedom to choose a career, decent labour conditions and protection against unemployment (Kham/Reuters) Reuters

Right to property (Goran Tomasevi/Reuters) Reuters

Freedom of thought, conscience and religion (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili) Reuters

Slavery and human trafficking of any kind are forbidden (AP Photo/Anupan Nath) Keystone

Right to housing (Keystone/Yoshiko Kusano) Keystone

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Human rights are universal and unalienable.

The charter of the United Nations, founded in 1945, aims to promote the respect and implementation of basic and human rights. Until the Second World War, human rights were almost always a matter of individual states.