Health Cards and Their Incompatibility with Human Rights, from the Perspective of International Documents Cover Image

Cardurile de sanatate si incompatibilitatea lor cu drepturile omului prin prisma documentelor juridice internationale
Health Cards and Their Incompatibility with Human Rights, from the Perspective of International Documents

Author(s): Mădălina Virginia Antonescu
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: health cards; human rights; biometrical practices; ius cogens; internationaln regulations; health reform

Summary/Abstract: The paper shows how the Romanian state operates a grave infringement of human rights consecrated within international documents, by introducing biometric health cards on the Romanian territory and regarding physical persons submitted to its jurisdiction. This is a clear signal of abandoning its main functions of defending democracy, rule of law and human rights, and converting the public institutions into actors of a police-state. By introducing biometrical practices, opposed in their essence to human rights, democracy and rule of law, the Romanian state violates not only the spirit and the text of its Constitution, but also, the European and international regulations ratified by it. This indicates a great gap at the beginning of XXI century, between the adepts of a police-state pattern, devoted to the incessant control, monitorization, manipulation of human person through electronic means, and those wanting a free, democratic society, based on development and consolidation of human rights.

  • Issue Year: II/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 71-91
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Romanian