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There is actually a minimal agreed upon set of goods, espoused in the Universal declaration of human rights (or your country's equivalent).

For instance, travel services must be free from discrimination:

> Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.

Or buying property

> Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

Or the issues of this thread

> Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

Or general social servies

> Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, ...

specifically education

> Everyone has the right to education.



A declaration is not a law and there are many countries without an equivalent, some don't even have a Bill of Rights equivalent (Australia is one). That declaration is just a political statement, nothing more.




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