Rights

A Declaration of the RIghts of Human Beings is a book written by Raoul Vaneigem. It outlines 58 rights.

Rights

 * 1) All men and women have the right to become human and to be treated as such
 * 2) Every human being has the right to life
 * 3) Every human being has the right to independence
 * 4) Every human being has the right to knowledge
 * 5) Every human being has the right to happiness
 * 6) Every human being has the right to dispose freely of his or her time
 * 7) Article 7 - Every human being has the right to move around as and how he or she thinks fit
 * 8) Article 8 - Every human being has the right to the freely available necessities of life
 * 9) Article 8a - Every human being has the right to a home in keeping with his or her desires
 * 10) Article 8b - Every human being has the right to healthy natural food
 * 11) Article 8c - Every human being has the right to health
 * 12) Article 8d - Every human being has the right to comfort and luxury
 * 13) Article 8e - Every human being has the right to free modes of transport set up by and for the collectivity
 * 14) Article 8f - Every human being has the right of free access to natural resources and sources of energy
 * 15) Article 9 - Every human being has the right to exercise permanent control over scientific experimentation so as to ensure that it serves the interests of human beings and not those of the market
 * 16) Article 10 - All human beings have the right to take delight in themselves, in others and in the world Article 10a1 - Every human being has the right to self- Alliance
 * 17) Article 10a2 - All human beings have the right to be themselves and to cultivate awareness of their own singularity
 * 18) Article 10a3 - Every human being has the right to authenticity
 * 19) Article 10b1 - Every human being has the right to alliance with his or her own kind
 * 20) Article 10b2 - All human beings have the right to association by affinity
 * 21) Article 10b3 - Every human being has the right to replace state governments with a world federation of small local collectivities in which the quality of the individuals guarantees the humanity of societies
 * 22) Article 10c - Every human being has the right to an alliance with nature
 * 23) Article 10d - Every human being has the right to be reconciled with his or her animal nature
 * 24) Article 11 - All human beings have the right to build their own destiny
 * 25) Article 12 - Every human being has the right to create and to self-creation
 * 26) Article 13 - Every human being possesses the right to step in and intervene wherever human progress is threatened
 * 27) Article 14 - Every human being has the right to bend towards life what was turned towards death
 * 28) Article 15 - Every human being has the right to improve his or her environment for the sake of a better life
 * 29) Article 16 - Every human being has the right to consideration for his or her sensitivity
 * 30) Article 17 - Every human being has the right to feel the movements of affection and disaffection which are inherent in the flux of passions and the freedoms of love
 * 31) Article 18 - Every human being has the right to a natural life and a natural death
 * 32) Article 19 - Every human being has the right to base the diversity of his or her desires on the plurality of life
 * 33) Article 20 - Every human being has the right to a choice between activity and rest
 * 34) Article 21 - Every human being has the right to be idle
 * 35) Article 22 - Every human being has the right to striving and perseverance
 * 36) Article 23 - Every human being has the right to his or her personal sense of beauty
 * 37) Article 24 - Every human being has the right to progress and to regress
 * 38) Article 25 - All human beings have the right to stray, to get lost and to find themselves
 * 39) Article 26 - Every human being has the right to vanquish terror and tame fear
 * 40) Article 27 - Every human being has the right to oppose threats
 * 41) Article 28 - Every human being has the right to make mistakes and to correct them
 * 42) Article 29 - Every human being has the right to an absolute freedom of opinion and expression
 * 43) Article 30 - Every human being has the right to criticize and contradict what may seem most certain or what passes for a fundamental truth
 * 44) Article 31 - Every human being has the right to hold nothing sacred
 * 45) Article 32 - Every human being has the right to change
 * 46) Article 33 - Every human being has the right to distantiation
 * 47) Article 34 - Every human being has the right to the pleasures of each generation
 * 48) Article 35 - Every human being has the right to reject suffering
 * 49) Article 36 - Every human being has the right to give and to give of themselves without sacrifice
 * 50) Article 37 - Every human being has the right to avoid frustration by replacing dissatisfaction with insatiability
 * 51) Article 38 - All human beings have a right to their doubts and to their certainties
 * 52) Article 39 - Every human being has the right to excess and to moderation
 * 53) Article 40 - Every human being has the right to diversion
 * 54) Article 41 - Every human being has the right to the freedoms of dreaming and imagination
 * 55) Article 42 - Every human being has the right to anger
 * 56) Article 43 - Every human being has a right to the body's well-being
 * 57) Article 44 - All human beings have the right to adorn themselves as they see fit
 * 58) Article 45 - All human beings have the right to their lies and their truths
 * 59) Article 46 - All human beings have the right to open themselves and close themselves to the world
 * 60) Article 47 - All human beings have the right to express or to keep silent about their emotions, their desires and their thoughts
 * 61) Article 48 - Every human being has the right to attain artistic expression
 * 62) Article 49 - Every human being has the right to the free exercise of goodness
 * 63) Article 50 - Every human being has the right to innocence
 * 64) Article 51 - Every human being has the right to count on the violence of life in order to ward off the violence of death
 * 65) Article 52 - Every human being has the right to restore to the will to live the vital energy usurped by the will to power
 * 66) Article 53 - Every human being has the right to protect and to be protected
 * 67) Article 54 - All human beings have the right to have children for their own happiness and or the sake of those who are born
 * 68) Article 55 - Every human being has the right to desire what seems beyond the realm of the possible
 * 69) Article 56 - All human beings have the right to govern their own moods, whims and fixations without having to impose them on anyone else or be subject to those of other people
 * 70) Article 57 - Every human being has the right to the poetry of existence
 * 71) Article 58 - Every human being has the right to play on and make light of the actions and the values of the old world

Excerpted from A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings - On the Sovereignty of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man Written by Raoul Vaneigem (2001) Translated (from French) by Liz Heron Published by Pluto Press (Sterling, VA. USA: 2003)