CITIZENSHIP, FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
CITIZENSHIP, FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

Summary/Abstract: In this paper we have addressed some of the key issues related to citizenship, as a legal notion and in particular Albanian citizenship. Citizenship expresses apolitical-legal connection of an individual to a particular state. Through it, flow the specificrights and obligations that the person fulfils during his life. Practically, citizenship entitles usto our rights and obligations and the loss of it deprives us from many of them. Citizenship isa high moral and constitutional value for each country. In this way the state not onlyidentifies its citizens but also protects them wherever they are. The authors have made abrief study regarding to the history of citizenship in Albania since the time of establishmentof the Albanian state to nowadays. The line that the Albanian state pursued for obtainingcitizenship was generally that of jus sanguinis and giving priority to the jus criterion only inexceptional cases. We have also stopped in the rights that derive from our citizenship,including political, civil, economic and cultural rights.Keywords: citizenship; human rights; individual;

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