Practice question
A group invokes freedom language in the UDHR as authority deliberately to abolish every other person’s declared rights. It concedes that its program is aimed at their destruction. Which is the proper textual response?
- Every invocation of freedom authorizes destruction
- Article 30 applies only to governments
- Private groups are entirely outside Article 30
- The declaration protects only its supporters
- Article 30 denies any State, group or person the claimed destructive entitlement
Legal references
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Articles 14-16 and 29-30, UN General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III), December 10, 1948, official text: https://www.un.org/en/node/124305
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