seek them, including the self-employed. (3) Consistent with this goal and pursuant to these Acts, the Congress has also declared and established as a national goal the fulfillment of the right to full opportunities for useful paid employment at fair rates of compensation of all individuals able, willing, and seeking to work. (4) The United States also has a duty under Articles 55 and 56 of the United Nations Charter to promote full employment and the universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion . (5) The human rights the United States has a duty to promote pursuant to this obligation are set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (6) Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that Everyone has the right to work and to just and favorable remuneration that insures for his or her family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection . (7) Consistent with the purpose and intent of the Employment Act of 1946, the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978, Articles 55 and 56 of the United Nations Charter, and Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Congress recognizes and declares that the meaning of full employment under both United States and international law is synonymous with the realization of the right to work. (8) Consistent with this understanding of the meaning of full employment, the stated policy of the United States with respect to the achievement of full employment and the realization of the right to work, and the obligations of the United States under international law, the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 established an interim 5-year target of 3 percent unemployment for individuals 20 years of age and older, and 4 percent for individuals age 16 and over within 5 years, with full employment to be achieved as soon as practicable thereafter. (9) Notwithstanding the targets