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Declaraţia Universală a Drepturilor Omului – 65 de ani de promovare şi protecţie a drepturilor omului
Universal Declaration of Human Rights – promotion and protection of human rights for 65 years

Author(s): Irina Zlătescu
Subject(s): International Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Institutul Român pentru Drepturile Omului
Keywords: human rights; promotion; guarantee; protection; science; codification;

Summary/Abstract: Life has shown that the 65 years since the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights increased and strengthened the force of the message conveyed by this exceptionally important document, conceived to consecrate an ideal shared by all nations, the foundation on which the edifice of human rights has been built. The viability of this document is also proved by the fact that it is a starting point for the internationalization, after the Second World War, of human rights, the Declaration remaining the final aim of the efforts taken by the international community, the States and the civil society, an aim to which mankind tends to come closer and closer. In this way, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights served as the foundation for an entire system of treaties, at world and regional levels, as well as the infrastructure of this system, consisting of institutions and mechanisms, with a strong impact upon the national systems, both at institutional and at legislative level.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 7-10
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian