The right we posess!

We have talked lot about different rights and freedoms. About their nature and circumstances of appearance! But there is also a question that we rarely pose, why do we differ these rights. This issue will be discussed in two articles. This is now the part I. Now we’ll try to discover if there are fundamental rights or not! In world politics we are used to determine fundamental rights, that are civil and political rights- I suppose, but we may also include all the other economic, social, cultural rights, but first of all those, which are written in major international agreements (Conventions, Declarations and Protocols). Than those not included are not fundamental. You may ask which rights are not included? I’ll answer that all democratic constitutions and international agreements say that human rights are not limited, so that there cannot be written a list of rights and freedoms. But we realize that governments usually acknowledge only those rights to which they are legally bound. This causes the most of the problems! From International Law we learn that there are many documents, which have only nominal powers, such as: The Un Declaration of Human Rights, The 1966 Protocols on civil, political and economic, social, cultural rights. Also the majority of states have signed them they cannot be punished for the violation. From the above mentioned we understand that politicians try to narrow the scale of human rights buy separating them to fundamental and non-fundamental rights. This is a mistake that a democratic leadership should not allow, if it wants to remain credible in the eyes of the wide humanity and if it still aims to set an example for the developing countries.

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