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Declaration on Social Progress and Development

Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 2542 (XXIV) of 11 December 1969

PART I

PRINCIPLES

Article 1

All peoples and all human beings, without distinction as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, family or social status, or political or other conviction, shall have the right to live in dignity and freedom and to enjoy the fruits of social progress and should, on their part, contribute to it.