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Was any penal law corresponding to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ever introduced in any country?
<p>Was any penal law corresponding to UDHR ever introduced in any country?
So that UDHR could be enforced.
I now that UDHR itself is not a penal code and as of now it is not enforced globally. But is there any country that has written or modified its  penal law so that UDHR can be enforced (at least on its territory)?</p>

<p>The <a href="https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a> isn't a penal code. It says very little about what should be a crime and only a little about what shouldn't be a crime or how those crimes should be punished.</p>

<p>It is cribbed heavily from the constitutional rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution and the positive rights declared by FDR in connection with his New Deal agenda. </p>

<p>It implies many positive entitlements and general principles that can't be achieved in the criminal justice system (Articles 1-2 and 13-30). </p>

<p>Articles 3-12 pertaining most directly to criminal procedure are very modest expectations that many countries meet, and even more countries have enacted as law, even if the reality doesn't always live up to the law in the statute books. This is evident from their very brevity.</p>

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  <p>Article 3.   Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of
  person.</p>
  
  <p>Article 4.   No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and
  the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.</p>
  
  <p>Article 5.   No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman
  or degrading treatment or punishment.</p>
  
  <p>Article 6.   Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a
  person before the law.</p>
  
  <p>Article 7.   All 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.</p>
  
  <p>Article 8.   Everyone 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.</p>
  
  <p>Article 9.   No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention
  or exile.</p>
  
  <p>Article 10.   Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and
  public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the
  determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge
  against him.</p>
  
  <p>Article 11.   (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right
  to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a
  public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his
  defence. (2) No one 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.</p>
  
  <p>Article 12.   No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with
  his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his
  honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the
  law against such interference or attacks.</p>
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