Towards a new fundamental human right – the right to dignity Cover Image

Spre un nou drept fundamental al omului: dreptul la demnitate
Towards a new fundamental human right – the right to dignity

Author(s): Gheorghe Iancu
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Institutul Român pentru Drepturile Omului
Keywords: human rights; human dignity; constitution; generation of rights;

Summary/Abstract: Human rights are nothing else than certain standards attained by each political state and social system having as central issue the human being defined as being abstract and rational. They are the international, regional and also European standards of the subjective and fundamental rights, regulated by a state, by its Constitution and by the laws for the residents of that respective state, according to which the abstract and rational person is thus converted into a citizen or a foreigner. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the first and most important international document which stipulates the need to defend human dignity, even if the Declaration is attached to the rights, but non-embedded in their category.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 15-19
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian