scholarly journals Human Rights. Protection and enforcement

2021 ◽  
pp. 141-148
Author(s):  
V. V. Vynokurov

The article is devoted to the analysis of the essence and content of the categories «human rights», «protection of human rights», «human rights enforcement» in terms of the substantive relationship between the constitutional state and the individual in modern society. It is emphasized that addressing these terms through the prism of human rights in order to effectively implement them, it is necessary to clearly understand their content and scope of possible actions covered by them, as well as to distinguish between «protection» and «enforcement» at both scientific and legislativelevels, taking into account, inter alia, their lexical meaning. It is determined that everyone, on the one hand, should be able to freely choose the way to protect their rights, and on the other – must be sure that the state guarantees equal opportunities for everyone, regardless of race, language, skin color, political, religious and other beliefs, gender, ethnic and social origin, property status, place of residence, etc., to use these methods of protection. The role and importance of public authorities in the process of protection and enforcement of human rights and freedoms and the state responsibility to the individual as an integral part of ensuring constitutional human rights are also defined. It is concluded that an integral part of constitutional human rights enforcement is certainly the existence of an effective and efficient mechanism of legal responsibility of the state to the individual. Keywords: human rights, protection of human rights, human rights enforcement, public authorities, state responsibility.

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armin von Bogdandy ◽  
Mateja Steinbrück Platise

International organizations may be regarded as international public authorities, since their acts increasingly impinge on individuals, private associations, enterprises, States, or public institutions. However, this development has not been followed by the creation of a corresponding system of international legal responsibility for international organizations. Some are even seen as a risk to fundamental rights. The Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations (ARIO) bring some progress in this regard, but nevertheless leave the victims of human rights violations largely overlooked. The article analyses some of the achievements and gaps of ARIO with respect to human rights protection and explores the possibilities for victims of human rights violations to seek remedies against international organizations.


Author(s):  
Mark Gibney ◽  
Linda Cornett ◽  
Peter Haschke ◽  
Reed M. Wood ◽  
Daniel Arnon

Although every violation of international human rights law standards is both deplorable and illegal, one of the major advances in the social sciences has been the development of measures of comparative state practice. The oldest of these is the Political Terror Scale (PTS), which provides an ordinal measure of physical integrity violations carried out by governments or those associated with the state. Providing data from the mid-1970s to the present, the PTS scores the human rights practices of more than 190 countries on a scale of 1–5, with 1 representing “best practices” and 5 indicating gross and systematic violations. There are two different sources for these scores: U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices and the Amnesty International Annual Report. Although human rights have traditionally been associated only with the state, individuals can also be denied human rights protection by non-state actors. To measure this, the Societal Violence Scale (SVS) has been created to analyze three sources of physical integrity violations: the individual; corporate or criminal gang activity; and armed groups. As globalization proceeds apace, states have an increased influence on human rights protection in other countries. Unfortunately, human rights data, such as the PTS, analyze only the domestic practices of states. In an effort to better understand the full extent of a state’s human rights performance, the Extraterritorial Obligations (ETO) Report is currently being constructed. The ETO Report will provide an important analysis of state human rights performance when acting outside its own territorial borders.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-128
Author(s):  
Floribertus Bujana Adi Pradana

For a long time, the issue of the state of law and human rights has always been debated among state legal experts and political thinkers. The purpose is to find an ideal concept about the state of law and the protection of human rights. However, for centuries, the concept of the state of law and the protection of human rights that are considered ideal has always been a debate. Moreover, so far there has been an impression that understanding human rights protection is superficially understood because it is only seen as mere moral guidelines. That understanding is wrong understanding because the understanding is not only on the moral order but also on the legal order. The facts show that, as a result of a superficial understanding of human rights, respect and also the enforcement of human rights are often not carried out properly as envisioned by a state of law. Based on this fact, this book has been compiled by referring to various literatures on constitutional law, political science and philosophy, which also describe the concept of the state of law and human rights, the concept of sovereignty and democracy, and the concepts of protection and the enforcement of human rights. Thus, the reader's understanding of the concept of the state of law and human rights can be understood in its entirety The understanding is not only in the concept of the state of law in legal formal way, but also in understanding more theoretical and philosophical concepts. Likewise, the understanding of human rights is also not only about conceptual understanding, but also understanding in the form of respect and protection of human rights implemented through the enforcement of human rights law.


Author(s):  
Kacper Milkowski ◽  

The attorney–client privilege is one of the fundamental elements that determines the actual assurance of the right to legal aid. It allows for the existence of trust between the client and the attorney, creating optimal conditions for the free and unrestricted transfer of information and comments between them. This, in turn, means that the attorney – equipped with full and true knowledge from the client, can most effectively assist in seeking protection of his rights and freedoms in court or before other public authorities. This means that attorney–client privilege increases the effectiveness of legal assistance and, consequently, access to court and enforcement of judicial procedures for the protection of all rights and freedoms. The article analyzes the significance of the attorney–client privilege in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. The ECtHR has repeatedly ruled on the protection of the attorney–client privilege as part of the human rights protection system. The Tribunal places the right to keep secret the information provided between the client and the lawyer in the sphere of guarantees arising from Article 6 (right to court) and Article 8 (right to protect communication) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (127) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
M. Medvedieva

The article considers the role of International Law in asserting Christian values in human rights protection. The author gives examples of harmonious interaction of International Law and Christian morality. According to the author, as a result of certain factors, International Law started to deviate from the principles of Christian ethics. As a result at the level of creating and implementing International Law there is a positive attitude or indifference to such destructive practices that destroy the individual, family, society, state as abortion, surrogacy, change of sex, same-sex unions, euthanasia, cloning, genetic modification, research on human embryos, etc. The article deals with these trends mainly on the example of the European model of human rights. The author analyzes the practice of interpretation and application of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950) by the European Court of Human Rights regarding the aforementioned issues and concludes that in many cases the Court goes away from the historical context of the adoption of the Convention, creates new rights, and in its judgments does not take into account the arguments of a state concerning the protection of public order and public morality that looks like a dangerous trend for the International Law functioning.


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Adi Purnomo Santoso ◽  
Dina Liliyana

<p><em>After the amendment of 1999-2002, the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia 1945 (UUD NRI 1945) as the constitution has contained material or substance more complete to the protection of human rights (human rights) than before the amendment. This is however a commitment of the state to qualify the existence of Indonesia as a state of Pancasila law that embraces constitutional democracy. In the epicentre of human rights protection, including how the state's responsibility in protecting human rights defenders. However, in contrast to what is regulated in the text of the constitution, in practice as revealed in the report of the Institute for Public Studies and Advocacy (ELSAM) noted that during 2019, there have been 27 cases of violence against environmental defenders with the spread of cases reaching 14 provinces and 24 districts and resulted in 127 individuals and 50 groups of Environmental Human Rights Defenders being victimized. This study aims to describe and review how the responsibility of the state in protecting human rights defenders constitutionally. The research method used is normative research with qualitative analysis approach, where data collection is done through literature studies. The result of this research is that Indonesia as the state of Pancasila law has constitutionally mandated the state (government) to specifically protect human rights defenders. By protecting human rights defenders, the state is not only implementing the constitution as the substance of living law, but also as an effort to promote universal human dignity and dignity.</em></p>


10.12737/6625 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Светлана Грачева ◽  
Svetlana Gracheva ◽  
Елена Рафалюк ◽  
Elena Rafalyuk

Human rights and freedoms and the guarantees of their security acquired the significance of the core values ​​of the legal process within the individual States and at the level of inter-state relationships. Integration processes and the creation of inter-state associations have had a significant impact on the development and effectiveness of systems to guarantee the rights and freedoms at the national, regional and global levels. Throughout the second half of the XX century, there is an active formation of systems of human rights protection in the various inter-state entities. The most ambitious of its distribution in space and effective in the context of the human right’s promotion are the European and Inter-American systems of human rights protection. The advantages of the regional human rights protection systems in comparison with the universal mechanisms to support them are: the availability of special territorial and legal space for human rights; the establishment of a list of standards for the protection of the rights and freedoms that are essential for the maintenance and sustainability of socio-cultural, political and economic ties within the appropriate space; the functioning of the interconnected competent supranational structures and institutions to provide within a specific territorial and legal environment protection of the rights and freedoms of the individuals. The protection of human rights is becoming a factor of the unification of the national legal order through the establishment of human rights standards within the legal space, covering a significant number of countries with common cultural, historical, political and legal traditions.


Author(s):  
Vitaliy B. Kovalchuk ◽  
Iryna M. Zharovska ◽  
Bohdan I. Gutiv ◽  
Bogdana B. Melnychenko ◽  
Iryna O. Panchuk

At present, both the international and the regional levels of human rights protection lack an express definition of the positive obligation of states to protect human rights. Similarly, the doctrine lacks a unified opinion regarding this concept. For quite a long time, human rights were considered as such that give rise to so-called negative obligations of states to refrain from human rights violations. However, with the development of international human rights law, it is increasingly recognised that human rights also give rise to positive obligations of the state to take active measures to ensure these rights. Such obligations usually derive from international human rights treaties or from the interpretation of international judicial bodies that monitor the implementation of corresponding international treaties. Therefore, it is crucial for the doctrine and practice of international law in the field of human rights protection to analyse the positive obligations of the state, which are consolidated in international treaties and the practice of international judicial bodies. The purpose of this study is to analyse human rights and positive obligations of the state in the context of regional mechanisms for the protection of human rights. Among the general scientific methods, the study used the analysis and synthesis, as well as deduction, induction, prediction, modeling, analogy and other general scientific methods. A thorough study of the positive obligations of the state would be impossible even without the use of special methods of study and cognition, which include comparative legal, historical and legal, technical, and structural-functional methods. In particular, one of the leading research methods was the comparative legal method, which was used to study the practice of regional mechanisms for the protection of human rights. The study provides an overview of the modern interpretation of positive obligations of states. Specifically, this study focuses on the practice of the European, Inter-American and African Human Rights Courts in the context of applying the state's positive obligations


2021 ◽  

Regional human rights mechanism are now in place covering nearly all five continents with the notable exception of Australia. Regional and international human rights protection are not meant to thwart each other. On the contrary, the regional protection of human rights is intended to back up and strengthen the international one by translating human rights into local languages and supporting them with additional protective mechanisms like commissions and courts that enforce regional human rights documents. In this volume, five experts from various continents will introduce regional human rights protection systems in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and Australia providing an overview of the regional protections vis-à-vis the international one and then contextualising it in specific country context.


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