"Freedom from fear" means to be without fear. Here, freedom doesn't mean exercising a "Right" in practice.
Combining "freedom" with the preposition "from" conveys a state of being without evil phenomena like fear, poverty and oppression.
For instance:
1. "Freedom from fear" signifies to live without fear.
2. "Freedom from poverty" conveys to live without poverty.
3. "Freedom from oppression" means to live without oppression.

Despite "freedom of", which conveys exerting a specific right, achieving "freedom from" demands a series of measures. For example, "freedom of speech" is a concrete result of exercising the right to express one's thoughts and opinions without fear of retaliation, censorship, or punishment. But "freedom from fear" requires enacting all rights asserted in the UDHR because fear has no specific origin and appears for many reasons. Fear from suppression, fear from starvation, fear from war and "fear from" many other things cannot be solved by exerting only a right.
Indeed, the combination of "freedom" with two prepositions "of" and "from" creates two meanings which can perplex us.

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