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persons; creating greater public awareness through education of the human rights<br />

abuses associated with such practices. The UDHR Article 4 states that “no one shall be<br />

held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their<br />

forms”. Today slavery is still not eradicated from the world, although universally<br />

condemned.<br />

The DHDR Article 24 enunciates the duty and responsibility to condemn torture and to<br />

take all necessary measures to prevent torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment<br />

or punishment, declaring criminal and punishing all acts of torture, cruel and inhuman<br />

and degrading treatment or punishment, enforcing strict controls over places and<br />

conditions of custody of persons deprived of their liberty. This enunciation specifies the<br />

duty for achieving the content of UDHR Article 5: “No one shall be subjected to torture<br />

or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.<br />

DHDR Article 25: The duty and responsibility to condemn and to prevent and eradicate<br />

enforced disappearances declaring criminal and punishing all acts of forced<br />

disappearances, ensuring that persons deprived of their liberty are only held in officially<br />

recognised places of detention, and that they have adequate access to judicial officers,<br />

legal representation, medical personnel and family members during the course of their<br />

detention.<br />

DHDR Chapter 7: Equality<br />

After trying to meet the major global challenges of our interdependent world, that are<br />

affecting today humankind as a whole. The DHDR Chapter 7 rethinks the principle of<br />

equality, such as states in the first UDHR articles. With a similar approach the UNESCO<br />

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