The right to protection in the construction of fundamental rights and freedoms

Author(s):  
V.I. Chervonyuk ◽  
E.Yu. Zinchenko
2022 ◽  
pp. 124-147
Author(s):  
Maral Törenli Çakıroğlu

The COVID-19 virus, which first appeared in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and spread quickly to the whole world in a few months, was defined as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 12 March 2020. This process has inevitably brought along problems in many areas, including health, education, social, economics, law, psychology, politics, and international relations. The pandemic era is a period when we appreciate more than ever how valuable our fundamental rights and freedoms are. Of these rights, the right to health and patient rights are significantly adversely impacted. This chapter will evaluate human rights, especially patient rights, mostly affected during this pandemic period in Turkey. This chapter further presents that other states are also continuing to experience effects of the pandemic. Both Turkey and other states must be prepared for the patients to properly benefit from the healthcare system in future outbreaks and pandemics. Otherwise, human and patient rights will continue to suffer.


Author(s):  
Jef Ausloos

This chapter takes a step back and looks at fair balancing acts induced by invoking the right to erasure. It starts with comparing balancing of fundamental rights and freedoms in the Charter with balancing in the GDPR. Indeed, it re-emphasizes how the GDPR as a whole, essentially constitutes a framework for fair balancing of rights, freedoms, and interests in the context of personal data processing. The chapter then lays out the actual blueprint for such fair balancing in the GDPR. It becomes clear how fair balancing in the GDPR is an iterative process, with ex ante and ex post balancing acts. The former need to be performed before processing initiates, and the latter refer to subsequent balances as triggered by data subject rights for example. Overall, the very nature of fair balancing does not allow for clear-cut, categorical answers to conflicts of rights, freedoms, and/or interests. Instead the GDPR should be looked at as defining the basic infrastructure for ensuring fair balancing, further to be refined by relevant stakeholders. This can notably happen through standards or certification mechanisms, guidance by authorities, and by controllers themselves.


2000 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 360-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Butler

The right of individuals to have recourse to international human rights bodies has been regarded as one of the most significant developments in securing respect for and the promotion of universal fundamental rights and freedoms.1 First, it ensures that individuals subjected to human rights violations have an alternative forum should the domestic judicial forums not be persuaded of the existence of rights violations, for whatever reason. Secondly, the availability of an individual's right of recourse affirms the fact that the individual is an actor cognisable by international law, and is not dependent on the intervention of other States for the safeguarding of his or her rights.2 This is particularly important, as many States are slow to engage complaint mechanisms against another State for fear of reprisal (be it in the form of economic or political sanctions, or the instigation of a complaint under the same mechanism by the other state), lack of interest, or otherwise.3 Thirdly, the existence of such fora, and the right of individual complaint from a variety of countries, are useful in developing a common universal standard of human rights observance.4 The combined result of these is that implementation of the goals set out in the international human rights instruments is facilitated because the means for their enforcement are not dependent upon international politics but rather are put in the hands of the rights holders. In turn, such machinery should improve State compliance.5


2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-58
Author(s):  
Morris Kiwinda Mbondenyi

AbstractA practice of frequent constitutional amendments started shortly after Kenya attained her independence in 1963. Consequently, the country has witnessed a confusion of systems of governance, ranging from single-party autocracy to virtual multi-party democracy, which have served to endorse the chronic condition of human rights violations in the country. In the process of such experimentation, Kenyans have unabatedly been denied the enjoyment of many of their fundamental rights and freedoms, including the right to participate in their government. This article analyses Kenya's constitutional order with the intention of highlighting the extent to which the country's citizens have been denied the right to participate in their government. Drawing inspiration from the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, the article recommends ways in which this right could be entrenched in the country's constitutional order.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (87) ◽  
Author(s):  
Inna Horislavska ◽  
◽  
Anastasiia Androshchuk ◽  

Now the world countries ran into the sharp problem of overcoming and counteraction to distribution in the whole world of COVID-19, and also application of responsibility for violation of quarantine. It is set on results research, that the personal unproperty rights for citizens were exposed to rather significant limitations, in fact normatively-legal acts in relation to responsibility for violation of quarantine and sanitary rules for prevention of COVID-19 have a row of legal contradictions. In the article on the basis of analysis of current national legislation, considerations of cases and theoretical and legal sources are investigated effective mechanisms of the legal providing of requirements of observance of sanitary rules and norms on prevention of infectious diseases in Ukraine. The problems of determination of legal nature, maintenance and realization of the personal unproperty rights open up in the conditions of introduction of quarantine events on warning of COVID-19. The article describes the concept of "the right to freedom of movement". This right was and is now more than ever one of the fundamental personal moral rights. The article examines the judicial practice of resolving cases in the context of the introduction of quarantine measures and ensuring the fundamental rights and freedoms of an individual through the introduction of technical means and risks that may arise in appropriate conditions. Proposals to eliminate the shortcomings of legal regulation in the studied area are substantiated. Human rights and freedoms, the degree of their recognition in the state and society, the level of their protection are determined by the type of its socio-economic organization, as well as the degree of social development and democratization of society. Personal non-property rights that ensure the social existence of an individual, including the right to freedom of movement, are closely related, both those that can be limited at the legislative level under certain conditions, and those that are not "subject to" such restrictions. Therefore, restrictions on the freedom of movement of an individual are possible only in cases provided by the Constitution and the Civil Code of Ukraine, other laws (but not by-laws, which are the rulings of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine). And also in compliance with the principles of expediency, proportionality to goals. It is necessary to determine the participants in the emerging legal relationship, both those who "control" and those participants who are "controlled, limited".


Author(s):  
Jef Ausloos

Chapter 2 lays the groundwork for the rest of the book, clearly delineating the fundamental right to data protection, its relation to the GDPR, and the right to erasure in it. The historical overview demonstrates that the emergence of data protection is inherently tied to technological developments and how these may amplify power asymmetries. It is also made clear that informational self-determination or control over personal data lies at the heart of the fundamental right to data protection as proclaimed in Article 8 Charter. This is a clear difference with the GDPR that has a much wider prerogative, ie protecting all fundamental rights and freedoms whenever personal data is being processed. Put differently, whereas Article 8 Charter safeguards a minimum level of control over one’s personal data, the GDPR installs a fair balancing framework that safeguards any and all fundamental rights and freedoms as they are affected by the processing of personal data. The substantive provisions of the GDPR can be divided into four categories along the lines of ex ante v ex post and protective v empowerment measures (see data protection matrix). This chapter ends with positioning the right to erasure within the GDPR’s arsenal of ex post empowerment measures, describing its legislative history as well as its main benefits and drawbacks.


2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1231-1252
Author(s):  
Tatjana Bugarski ◽  
Milana Pisarić

Possession of accurate, complete and reliable relevant data on electronic communications traffic and timely access of authorized competent state bodies to such data is without a doubt a useful tool in the fight against modern forms of crime. For that reason, it is justified to establish an obligation for providers of electronic communications services to keep certain data on communications for a certain period of time in the realization of which they mediate and to hand over that data at the request of authorized state bodies, in order to use them for legitimate purposes. For this reason, the Data Retention Directive was adopted in 2006, which Member States were required to transpose into national law. However, data retention poses a risk to basic human rights and freedoms, if the regulation establishing this obligation does so without respecting the essence of these rights and freedoms, especially the right to privacy and rights related to the processing of personal data, for which reason the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the Directive invalid is 2014. Despite this decision, Member States continue to regulate the obligation to retain data in their national regulations. In this regard, the question of compliance of these regulations with the fundamental rights and freedoms and principles of the Union is raised. The subject of the paper is the analysis of the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU on this issue after the annulment of the Data Retention Directive.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Milinković

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected all aspects of people’s daily lives. In response to the pandemic, many countries declared a state of emergency. Extraordinary measures have been implemented to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus. Some of these measures require significant restrictions of fundamental rights and freedoms, such as the right to privacy, freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, religious freedoms etc. In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), the BiH and entity authorities adopted decisions to provide a legal basis for implementation of extraordinary measures. The paper deals with the restrictive measures implemented during the COVID-19 crisis in BiH and their impact on human rights realization. The relevant decisions of the Constitutional Court of BiH are also analysed, including the decision in case AP-3683/20 according to which certain restrictive measures are contrary to the right to respect of private life and the freedom of movement.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-264
Author(s):  
M. Syafi'ie

This paper elaborates the view of Islamic organizations in Indonesia about the application of Islamic criminal law in the form of cutting off hands, stoning, and whipping, and examining them based on human rights law. The Islamic Organizations whose views are explored here are Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Muhammadiyah, Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI), and Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT). This article concludes, first, there are two different views of the Islamic Organization studied: one sees its application as a necessity or mandatory, and the other views it as the state responsibility that needs to consider the social interests according to its context. Of the four Islamic organizations studied, the first view was reflected in MMI and JAT, and the second view was on NU and Muhammadiyah. Second, the law of cutting off hands, stoning, and whipping, which for some Islamic organizations is seen as the right to practice worship and belief, cannot be justified by human rights norms. Although the rights to religion and belief are rights that are categorized as non derogable right, the implementation and application of religious teachings is actually categorized as derogable rights. Therefore, for reasons of protection of public security, public order, public health, morals, and fundamental rights and freedoms of others, the application of religious teachings, in this case the punishment for cutting off hands, stoning, and whipping, can be limited. Abstrak Artikel ini menguraikan pandangan atau pemikiran organisasi Islam di Indonesia tentang penerapan hukum pidana Islam berupa hukuman potong tangan, rajam, dan cambuk, dan menelaahnya berdasarkan hukum hak asasi manusia. Organisasi Islam yang digali pandangannya di sini adalah Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Muhammadiyah, Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), dan Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT). Artikel ini menyimpulkan, pertama, ada dua pandangan berbeda dari Organisasi Islam yang diteliti: yang satu memandang pemberlakuannya sebagai keharusan atau wajib, dan yang satu lagi memandangnya sebagai tanggungjawab negara yang perlu mempertimbangkan kepentingan sosial masyarakat sesuai konteksnya. Dari empat Organisasi Islam yang diteliti, pandangan pertama tercermin pada sikap MMI dan JAT, dan pandangan kedua pada NU dan Muhammadiyah. Kedua, hukum potong tangan, rajam, dan cambuk, yang bagi sebagian organisasi Islam dilihat sebagai hak untuk menjalankan ibadah dan keyakinan, tidak dapat dibenarkan oleh norma hak asasi manusia. Sekalipun hak beragama dan berkeyakinan merupakan hak yang terkatagori non derogable right, implementasi dan penerapan ajaran agama sesungguhnya terkatagori derogable rights. Karena itu, dengan alasan perlindungan keamanan publik, ketertiban publik, kesehatan publik, moral, serta hak dan kebebasan fundamental orang lain, maka implementasi ajaran agama, dalam hal ini hukuman potong tangan, rajam, dan cambuk, menjadi bisa dibatasi.


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