Article 23 The United Nations

Gave me dignity for I nowith wrong


The Presidential Library of Harry S. Truman source

PREAMBLE Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people, Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law, Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms, Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge, Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. ^ Top Article 4. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7. All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8. 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.

Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10. 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.

Article 11. (1) 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. (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12. 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.

Article 13. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14. (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (2) 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 of the United Nations.

Article 15. (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality. ^ Top Article 16. (1) 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 marriage and at its dissolution. (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. (3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17. (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others. (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18. 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 belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19. 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.

Article 20. (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21. (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives. (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country. (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22. Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality. ^

Article 23. (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25. (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. ^

Article 26. (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27. (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28. Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29. (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

Source The Universal declaration of Human Rights

Buxom love goddess Hohle Fels found estimated to be 35,000 years old

Dolly Parton's maquette unearthed, Greatgrand to Venus of Willendorf

A bone sculpture of a female goddess less then two inches in length and having the likeness of an Indian deity. No, no its not a plucked chicken

A figurine, unearthed from a cave, called Hohle Fels in Schelklingen, Germany in 2008 was unveiled publicly. It may be the oldest sculptural carving created by human hands. Anthropologists believe the doll to be at least 35,000 years old. The ivory Venus figurine may shed light over male desire for sex and reproduction. It could have been carved by a youth as a gift to an admirer, made over many hours of idle time. No internet, not porn, no Playboy magazine, just a dark damp cave, and a shell scraping at a husk. I'll like to met her someday, we could be friends, Those breasts, Boy oh Boy, that flat rump, wow, those razer sharp lips, ahem..

Terrible relics from the 16th century on Auction

Never in your wildest dreams would you think that any God would allow these movements to exist. Only the lowest of man would devise such a heavenly pain device to enter his mind. His blood, his generations shall bear his deeds

Dachau concentration camp, Munich, 1933

It may be the Bridle of Shame, the Wheel, the Judas Cradle or any given relished name by the agents to punish a victim and shred them apart, The Guernsey's Auction House in New York is auctioning off their 16th century Torture relic collection which they privately own. The proceeds are to go to Amnesty International and other organizations committed to prevent the use of torture Worldwide in these modern times.

This comes just after the recent debate over United States instigating levels of torture in its interrogating prisons. This may be a guilt trip to purge generations of blood and death stained into these devices, and in their possession. The Guernsey's Auction is the most extensive collection of historical torture devices, and over 252 items including artifacts, rare books and documents are to be sold to a buyer without a fetish for pain or having something that causes much of it. Eccentric collectors may relish over getting the original Rack to place side by side to their copy. Careful, objects carry a history.

Before Marcel Duchamp and his conceptual readymade "Fountain", 1917, these objects serve a function, with a less desire to be tested over its meaning or in its participation

Spike chair designed to torture to death by weight of the victim. These relics are considered works of Art.

Ode to Earth Day 2009

The Poui in bloom, Trinidad, West Indies

Soil, sand and seas, ample hills that bleed, oaks, pines and daffodils. See beyond your childish gaze, touch my silky skin. I am here not for my beauty, but for my time, before I return to a desert, dust clouding my vision, damp charcoaled skin. Death comes with a whisk of flames, I sleep never to return.

Ode to Earth

Susan Boyle 1432 breaks all records

Don't be the master of all things, just one, with every force and might



The Scottish mega star Susan Boyle during her audition to Britain's Got Talent

Just after posting her singing performance on the youtube one week ago, Susan Boyle's courage to face an audience and a number of judges has evoked an emotional aftershock to over 26 million hits so far, it may reach a 100 million. Her rendition to I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables, Ms. Boyle addressed her audience in a simple manner. She may be very suffer from autism, yet the fascination and appall is that of her perceived prejudice just before the judges. Then, she opened her mouth and the World turned its ear to her as she brought forth vocal calibre that brought down the house.

This has more to do with the dignity of a human being, and the potential of human spirit masked other than what one sees. Here is a lesson to all, Popes, Kings, Queens, World leaders and the common folk. Put you prejudices aside, above all things, believe in the beauty that is of man beneath any of his skins.

Before and After, the three judges from Britain's Got Talent are caught wetting their pants. At 4.03 of the video, Simon Cowell released his kegel exercise

Murmurs of Earth - The Blueprint of Mankind

The mystery remains, the cosmos is a gateway if we allow ourselves to think the possible, I say this for future generations solely in awe of life...


The Voyager space craft's Golden Record

This diagram is the given instructions to operate a disk called the Voyager Golden Record which was launched with the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. It contains visuals and sounds to portray the types of life and culture on Earth. Such a device would probably be laugh at or destroyed if it was found in hands of other life more or less intelligent then ourselves. As with the cave painting discoveries in France, the pictogram is an example that art or the act of drawing geometric symbols is the key to all life, etched here on this golden disk. The statement below was part of the intergalactic journey of the American Voyager spacecraft.

If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded content, here is our message: This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and feelings. We are attempting to survive time so we me live into yours. We hope someday to solve the problems we face to join a community of galactic civilization. The record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe. - Jimmy Carter, June, 1976


A plaque placed on board Pioneer 10 in 1972 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft in 1973. "Hey white woman stand up straight"

It would have been more practical as a self generated device encased in a indestructible sphere. As you shook it to see what it was, the motion would generate power and trigger on a holographic image. The audio should be samples be our heart beat, nevertheless the following montage is an example of what we look like to the outside world. Who knows, the aliens we are in search of may derive from ourself millions of light years ahead. The universal elements of life; Magnetics, electricity, fibonacci spiral, light, magenta, cyan and yellow.

In a dream, I remember seeing the vision of the statue of David as an epoch to the end of the World. Somehow the Sun had died and this was a reminder that only art survives the test of time.




A montage of the pinnacle individuals that left their mark in history on this planet, earth. We will be remembered in a vast universe that we accounted for something, fractions of light if so be......We have already passed

The compilation in the following order; largest bomb ever tested, the Tsar, the bombshell, Josephine Baker, Metropolis, LL Cool J's fly girls, Nadia Comaneci, Diego Maradona, Muhammad Ali, break dancing, Rudolf Nureyev, Pablo Picasso, first television felix the cat, Jesse Owens, Aboriginals dancing, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marlon Brando, Bruce lee, Albert Einstein, character, Who shot J.R. Ewing, Tank man, Bugsbunny, Martin Luther King, Coco Chanel, Marilyn Monroe, Y2 rocket, the beloved Laika, Apollo 11, Michelangelo David and finally, an aboriginal from Australia. The sound track taken from the radio sounds detected during the Voyager bypass of Jupiter's magnetic field.

The Games of the XXX Olympiad - London 2012

The Concorde is an example of Invention which the British are instilled by. The Games of the XXX Olympiad in 2012 shall motive their ability to host it with a zeal of refinement, power and unforgeable beauty.

As a young boy, I had a fascination with drawing airplanes, and as a hobby, I carved a scale model of the Concorde by using a piece of wood and cardboard for its wings. The model was supported by a wire brace, and the airplane looked convincing and could stand on its own. The Concorde along with the DC-9 were two planes I showed at the British Airways, Air Canada and Air France travel bureaus in Port of Spain, Trinidad and for my efforts, I was given one of their display models.

In my fascination with flight, I devised a contraption using a nylon cord attached from one end of the fence all along to the other end of the yard. The showroom scale model, Air France A300 was suspended by a pulley and the under the wings I mounted a landing gear. At the point where the plane touched the dirt, it gave the appearance that the plane was landing. The only problem was, I had to race up and down the hill to release it. So as it scaled down the line, I had to run ahead to the spot where the wheels touched the ground.

Just recently, I was asked why didn't I become a pilot, I believe that it was the fascination of machines in flight that instilled my dream.

Mathematics and Art

These Turkish dervish dances explain that above all things, music evokes the spirit and mathematics exemplifies its beauty. The brain is in tranced by the sequences in visual patterns which is calming. The dervish dances themselves reach an ecstatic plateau which we Trinidadians and Tobagonian experience in duration during carnival.

A simple experiment is to try to think of anything as you focus on the tempo of the music and the rotation and rate of the dancer. The mind is paralyzed

Readymade Art II

No other than man can inflict conscious cruelty upon himself

The seventeen century apparatus to the left of you was designed to restrain a human. With its vices, belts and adjustable straps, the chair is a work of art in its precision and function. It reflects the greatest fear in men of man. The device was used as a tool of torture.

Thank You

The greatest words bestowed to man

Please note the difference meaning expressed with the word, "Thanks". It has a casual ring to it and should be accepted with skepticism.

In a dilapidated plot of land, where a house once stood, a chain securely locks the gate to the entrance. What it protects is the home of a thinker, he words and art which are located on many walls across in the Capital, Port of Spain. Littered with refuse, cardboard boxes and paint, an Artists continues to express his passion, his vision for his country, Trinidad and Tobago, but never himself or the circumstances of his life. This time there is a bit more, he has immortalised thebookmann by a simple inscription between the lines in pencil.