Human rights

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The Human Rights (abbreviated HR) is part of international human and people’s law and other international law, and specified in various international agreements. These rights regulate the relationship between state power and individuals and also establish certain obligations by the state towards individuals.

Human rights are considered universal, meaning that they apply throughout the world, regardless of country, culture or other circumstances. They apply to everyone, regardless of ethnicity, color, sex, language, religion, political opinion or social status. They also state that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and have equal rights. Only the rights protected in the primary international law can be maintained in a legal sense, regardless of how any state relate to international agreements.

Human rights are specified in international agreements. Among these agreements, we can distinguish between conventions and protocols. These will both be binding in the sense that states declare themselves bound by them and that these statements and declarations are political obligations.

Universal conventions

After World War II, various documents prepared within the framework of the United Nations statutes dealing with human rights. The basic international conventions are:

• United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights [1] (1948)
• Genocide Convention (1948)
• The Convention against Racial Discrimination (1965)
• UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
• UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
• Convention Against All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979)
• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)
• The Convention on the Rights of Children (1989)
• Convention for the Protection of All Migrant Workers and their Families (1990)

There are also human rights in other regional and national agreements such as the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950) and the American Convention on Human Rights.

Related articles

ILO Convention on the Rights at Work

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