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".
These actions contravene the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which tells us that all people have the right 'to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers'.
Article 19: Everyone 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.
Referring to article 19 of the United Nations' human rights declaration, which asserts the right of the individual to "seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media", Costolo said that throughout history withholding information had been a method of retaining power.
We've taken this approach because, as article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Everyone 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".
But by putting the two journalists on trial, the Holy See appears to be in breach of its obligations as a signatory to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, article 19, which allows journalists to "seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers".
Whereas, freedom of speech and freedom of the press are fundamental human rights, and free use of the Internet is protected in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees freedom to "receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers", and.
"Everyone 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".
Globally, most of the world's countries are a signatory of the U.N.'s Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which declares, "Every one has the right to freedom of opinion and expression", though it also notes, "this right does not include freedom to irritate without interference from others, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers".
We should focus on preventing the servants of doctrinaire propaganda from using all forms of pressure and trickery to whittle away at Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
