A more pronounced scorn, a more marked disdain. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Modeled on the 1789 document known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the [Male] Citizen (Déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen), Gouges’s manifesto asserted that women are equal to men in society and, as such, entitled to the same citizenship rights. Gouges’ Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen had been widely reproduced and influenced the writings of women's advocates in the Atlantic world. This French Revolution site contains articles, sources and perspectives on events in France between 1781 and 1795. (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. This document was published in 1791 and it was made in comparison to the “Declaration of the Rights of Man” which was published in 1789. Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. De Gouges moved to Paris in 1770, where she started a theater company and became involved in the growing abolitionist movement. Biography of Olympe de Gouges, French Women's Rights Activist. In an attempt to correct this Olympe de Goupe came up with women right declaration is order to be able to challenge the declaration of the rights of men. Modeled after the 1789 "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" by the National Assembly, Gouges' declaration echoed the same language and extended it to women. From 1789—beginning with the French Revolution and the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen"—until 1944, French women were not allowed to vote, meaning they did not have the full rights of citizenship. It contains 231,430 words in 354 pages and was updated on September 8th 2020. The preamble of Gouges’s pamphlet emphasized that women must be included among those considered part of France’s National Assembly. (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudice, fanaticism, superstition, and lies. (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. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. Female delegates from various countries played a key role in getting women’s rights included in the document. In the midst of a revolution to extend rights to more men, Olympe de Gouges had the audacity to argue that women, too, should benefit. That was one of the more controversial elements of the declaration, because it holds that men who father children outside of marriage must be held accountable for those children just as they are for children fathered within marriage. For refusing to be silent on the rights of women―and for associating with the wrong side, the Girondists, and criticizing the Jacobins, as the Revolution became embroiled in new conflicts―Olympe de Gouges was arrested in July 1793, four years after the Revolution began. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. This was the case even though women were active in the French Revolution, and many assumed that such rights were theirs by virtue of their participation in that historic liberation struggle. More radically, Article 11 gives a woman the right to publicly name the father of her children and to be entitled to pass along property to those children. Elementary education shall be compulsory. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. A woman was not simply the same as a man; she was his equal partner. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. The Declaration of the rights of Women was created by Gouge with the intention of being a public document for the government, in particular; the National Assembly, and the people of France. The ‘Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen’ was constituted as a reaction to the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen’. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the [Female] Citizen, Director, First Year Seminar, Curry College. Her contemporaries were clear that her punishment was, in part, for forgetting her proper place and violating the boundaries set for women. (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War.