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Universal Declaration of Plant Rights

808kahumai

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Article 1
All plants are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2
Every plant is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as strain, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a plant belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3
Every plant has the right to life, liberty and security of self.

Article 4
No plant shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5
No plant shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6
Every plant has the right to recognition everywhere as a plant before the law.

Article 7
All plants are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8
Every plant has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9
No plant shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10
Every plant is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of its rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against it.

Article 11
  1. If a plant is ever charged with a penal offence it has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which it has had all the guarantees necessary for its defence.
  2. No plant shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.
Article 12
No plant shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with its privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon its honour and reputation. Every plant has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13
  1. Every plant has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
  2. Every plant has the right to leave any country, including its own, and to return to its country.
Article 14
  1. Every plant 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.
Article 15
  1. Every plant has the right to a nationality.
  2. No pant shall be arbitrarily deprived of its nationality nor denied the right to change its nationality.
Article 16
  1. Male and female plants of full age, without any limitation due to strain, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
  2. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
  3. The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.
Article 17
  1. Every plant has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
  2. No plant shall be arbitrarily deprived of its property.
Article 18
Every plant has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change its religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest itsreligion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19
Every plant has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20
  1. Every plant has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
  2. No plant may be compelled to belong to an association.
Article 21
  1. Every plant has the right to take part in the government of its country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
  2. Every plant has the right of equal access to public service in its country.
  3. The will of the plants shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
Article 22

Every plant, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of its personality.

Article 23
  1. Every plant has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
  2. Every plant, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
  3. Every plant that works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for itsself and its family an existence worthy of plant dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
  4. Every plant has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
Article 24
Every plant has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25
  1. Every plant has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of itself and of its family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond its control.
  2. Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
Article 26
  1. Every plant has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
  2. Education shall be directed to the full development of the plant personality and to the strengthening of respect for plant rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, strain or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
  3. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
Article 27
  1. Every plant has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
  2. Every plant has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which it is the author.
Article 28
Every plant is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29
  1. Every plant has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of its personality is possible.
  2. In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, every plant shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of other plants and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
  3. These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Article 30
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or plant any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.
 
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Linenoise

Member
Uhm yeahhhhhhh.........m'kay.

Do I even need to explain why this is dumb? Even PETA would think you've gone too far. :p
 
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sparkjumper

No plant shall ever have domain over people lest we become podfolk.I love erb but I never ever want to point at a friend and go SCCREEEEEEEEEEEEACHEEEEEEEEEEEE.Thats a Universal declaration of human rights over plant rights. I hate the pods
 
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