Cum modificăm Constituția restrângând drepturi fundamentale
How we modify the Constitution to curtail fundamental rights

Summary/Abstract: The article, written by human rights activist Florin Buhuceanu, analyzes the strategy, the public narratives and the mechanism by which populist citizens’ initiatives can lead to the modification of the Constitution and can have a negative impact on the regime of human rights in Romania. The balance between fundamental rights and freedoms is deliberately affected by the establishment of a hierarchy of rights in which religious freedom is given a superior status relative to other rights, such as family rights for same gender families or sexual and reproductive rights. By initiating the referendum on the pressure of the powerful Orthodox Church, with the aim of defining „family” in the Romanian Constitution in a restrictive way, the Romanian authorities demonstrate their intention to discriminate against the LGBT community.

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