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Universal Law of Human Rights (ULHR)

The common minimum of rights established within the Universal Security and Human Rights Mandate and carried forward in the Constitution of Humanity.

  • Glossary term
  • Source: The Divided Peninsula
  • Published canon

Meaning in the series

The ULHR includes substantive protections and judicial process. Its first comprehensive published legal text is Annex I of the Mandate; the constitutional rights provisions later appear in Article II.

Source and related reading

Primary source: The Divided Peninsula. This entry explains terminology found in the published fiction; for controlling legal wording, consult the linked instruments.