(3) Education shall be directed to the full development of the
human personality and the sense of his or her dignity.
Education shall strengthen the respect for human rights
and fundamental freedoms in ASEAN Member States.
Furthermore, education shall enable all persons to
participate effectively in their respective societies, promote
understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations,
racial and religious groups, and enhance the activities of
ASEAN for the maintenance of peace.
32. Every person has the right, individually or in association with
others, to freely take part in cultural life, to enjoy the arts and
the benefits of scientific progress and its applications and to
benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests
resulting from any scientific, literary or appropriate artistic
production of which one is the author.
33. ASEAN Member States should take steps, individually and
through regional and international assistance and cooperation,
especially economic and technical, to the maximum of its
available resources, with a view to achieving progressively the
full realisation of economic, social and cultural rights recognised
in this Declaration.
34. ASEAN Member States may determine the extent to which they
would guarantee the economic and social rights found in this
Declaration to non-nationals, with due regard to human rights
and the organisation and resources of their respective national
economies.
RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT
35. The right to development is an inalienable human right by virtue
of which every human person and the peoples of ASEAN are
entitled to participate in, contribute to, enjoy and benefit
equitably and sustainably from economic, social, cultural and
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