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12. A focused glance of the aforesaid Article would show that there is a constitutional obligation upon the State to secure to the citizens an adequate means of livelihood, it would be sheer inhuman on their part to exclude the right of livelihood from the contents of the right to life. In this regard, core human rights issue has been dealt in number of International Declarations, Conventions or International Instruments and International Laws. First one is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which can be understood as under: -

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR):

UDHR is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10-12-1948 at Paris. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. Its Articles 3 and 25(1) read as under: -