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Disaster Risk Reduction is a Human Right At the most basic level, everyone should be provided with an environment in which they can survive and thrive. Everyone should know about the hazards and risks they are exposed to, so they are able to prepare for potential disasters. Everyone should also have the opportunity to understand wider threats facing society and nature, and be provided with opportunities to contribute to Disaster Risk Reduction. These should be regarded as fundamental rights, corresponding to Articles 1, 3, 19 and 28-29 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as a number of other Articles, ensuring the preservation of our own dignity and the dignity of others.2 Access to food, water, peace, social security, education, selfdetermination are all the basis of human rights, and all are impacted by disasters, and so by Disaster Risk Reduction.
2 See ‘Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals’, pp. 14-21, and the ‘Further information’ section towards the end of this Guide.
1. We are all born free and equal We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way. 3. Everyone has the right to life Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. 19. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, which includes the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. 28. A fair and free world There must be proper order so we can all enjoy rights and freedoms in our own country and all over the world. 29. Responsibility We have a duty to other people, and we should protect their rights and freedoms.
