4. Member States shall require that both the law enforcement officer and the suspect, if he is willing, sign the Letter of Rights, as evidence that it has been offered, given and accepted.

17. Believes that a minimum common standard should impose a requirement on the Member States to furnish suspects and defendants, as soon as they come into contact with a law enforcement official, with a written, readily comprehensible 'Letter of Rights’ which sets out their fundamental rights in a language they understand, and that in any event they should be informed by an official of the existence of charges against them; points out that this letter is not intended to take the place of the obligation to advise suspects that anything they say may be used in evidence against them, but should supplement that obligation; considers that t ...[+++]his letter must be furnished in a language the defendant immediately understands as soon as he/she comes into contact with a law enforcement official, and that a receipt should be signed by the defendant and set down in record, except in cases where in front of a lawyer he/she waives this right and declines to sign; is of the opinion that this letter must not replace the obligation to caution but should supplement it and that this letter must be furnished at the time the suspect or defendant first enters police custody and a receipt signed by the defendant and set down in record;

C. whereas paragraph 5(b) of the Doha Declaration reaffirms the right of countries to grant compulsory licences and the freedom to determine grounds upon which such licences are granted, and whereas paragraph 6(c) reaffirms that each member has the right to determine what constitutes a national emergency or other circumstances of extreme urgency,

In 1959, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child included principle 7, which states that the child is entitled to receive free and compulsory education in the elementary stages.

I would like to remind you that the first time that the declaration of rights was discussed was at the Congress of Europe in The Hague in 1948, and that was the origin of the European Convention on Human Rights of the Council of Europe.

" (Article 1) To declare that it recognizes as binding, ipso facto, and not requiring special agreement, the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on all matters relating to the interpretation or application of the American Convention on Human Rights" .