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. Nationality In Drinks I. My heart sank with our Claret-flask, Just now, beneath the heavy sedges That serve this Pond’s black face for mask And still at […]

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. Asylum Seekers When Blunkett starts to talk […]

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. Home Thoughts, From Abroad Oh, to be in England Now that April’s there, And whoever wakes in England […]

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. Honour Me let the world disparage and despise – As one unfettered with its gilded […]

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 […]

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. To my Father Two years have passed in far-away prisons, Two years my eyes untouched by kohl. Two years my […]

Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. Ancient Greek Song Of Exile WHERE is the summer, with her golden sun? – That festal glory hath not pass’d from earth: For me alone the laughing day is done! Where is the summer with her voice of mirth? – Far in […]