Accountability
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Accountability
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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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