Exceptions to human rights

What is a legally sanctioned exception to the right to life?

• Using violence (or the threat of violence) to extract a confession from a suspect or enemy combatant

• the death penalty

• Putting someone in jail, into lockdown/quarantine, under house arrest or confiscating their passport

• Censorship, including banning hate speech

What is a legally sanctioned exception to the right to liberty?

• Using violence (or the threat of violence) to extract a confession from a suspect or enemy combatant

• The death penalty

• Putting someone in jail, into lockdown/quarantine, under house arrest or confiscating their passport

• Censorship, including banning hate speech

What is a legally sanctioned exception to freedom from slavery?

• Forcing someone to work without pay or forcing someone to marry when they don’t want to

• Using violence (or the threat of violence) to extract a confession from a suspect or enemy combatant

• Taking away someone’s licence to practice their profession

• Banning a group from attending school, for example girls

What is a legally sanctioned exception to freedom from torture?

• Forcing someone to work without pay or forcing someone to marry when they don’t want to

• Using violence (or the threat of violence) to extract a confession from a suspect or enemy combatant

• Taking away someone’s licence to practice their profession

• Banning a group from attending school, for example girls

What is a legally sanctioned exception to freedom of opinion or expression?

• Using violence (or the threat of violence) to extract a confession from a suspect or enemy combatant

• The death penalty

• Putting someone in jail, into lockdown/quarantine, under house arrest or confiscating their passport

• Censorship, including banning hate speech

What is a legally sanctioned exception to the right to work?

• Forcing someone to work without pay or forcing someone to marry when they don’t want to

• Using violence (or the threat of violence) to extract a confession from a suspect or enemy combatant

• Taking away someone’s licence to practice their profession

• Banning a group from attending school, for example girls

What is a legally sanctioned exception to the right to education?

• Forcing someone to work without pay or forcing someone to marry when they don’t want to

• Using violence (or the threat of violence) to extract a confession from a suspect or enemy combatant

• Taking away someone’s licence to practice their profession

• Banning a group from attending school, for example girls