Universal Human Rights: History, Principles, and International Treaties, Guide, Progetti e Ricerche di Inglese Giuridico

Scarica Universal Human Rights: History, Principles, and International Treaties e più Guide, Progetti e Ricerche in PDF di Inglese Giuridico solo su Docsity! HUMAN RIGHTS Human rights represent the inalienable rights that every single human being possesses, without distincion as to race, colour, sex, language, religiorn, political or other opinion, National or social origin, properthy, birth or other status. These Rights are founded on respect of each person. In fact they are universal, so applied equally and without discrimination to all; inalienable, in that no one can take away the rights of other people; indivisible, interrelated and interdependet, for the reason that it is insufficient to respect some human rights and not others. After the Second World War, since 1945, have emerged a series of international human rights treaties. Thanks to the creation of the United Nations was/is provided an ideal forum for the development and the adoption of international human rights instruments. In fact most states have also adopted constitutions and other laws which formally protect basic human rights. In 1959 was founded the European Court of Human Rights, commonly known as the European Convention on Human Rights. It is an international human rights treaty between the 47 states that are members of the Council of Europe. The convention obligates signatories to guarantee various civil and political freedoms, including the freedom of expression and religion and the right to a fair trial. Treating another topic, we can say that there is a difference between Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law. The last is a body of principles and norm intended to limit human suffering in times or arm conflict and to prevent atrocities. Human rights law, on the other hand, setting standards for State conduct in guaranteeing the rights and freedoms of individuals. In 1966, two international convenants on human rights were completed: the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights and the international convenant on civil and political rights, which effectively