The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948
Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
(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.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.
For the full text of the Declaration, go to: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml