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CONCEPT OF RIGHT TO LIFE. CONTENT AND INSIGHTS
CONCEPT OF RIGHT TO LIFE. CONTENT AND INSIGHTS

Author(s): Mircea Tutunaru
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien/ Österreichisch-Rumänischer Akademischer Verein
Keywords: fundamental rights; freedom; life; convention; state constitution;

Summary/Abstract: The right to life is and remains one of the fundamental rights of citizens and the natural human right. It is the fundamental right of human rights beginning inventory was consecrated since the first declaration of rights. This right included in important international legal instruments, namely the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (article. 2) and Protocol. 6 to the Convention on abolition, the document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE (Section. 16.7 and 17.1). In some constitutions the right to life does not appear explicitly formulated, although they, through their regulations, pursue the protection of life. In this category we group all except current Romanian Constitution and the constitutions of France, Sweden, Italy.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2014
  • Issue No: VIII
  • Page Range: 288-292
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English
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