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Demnitate și justiție
Dignity and justice

Author(s): Monna-Lisa Belu Magdo
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Institutul Român pentru Drepturile Omului
Keywords: international covenants and treaties; dignity; legal norms; jurisprudence;

Summary/Abstract: Dignity, as an intrinsic feature of the human being, involves, in legal terms, authority, observance (an erga omnes opposability), but also protection in the relationship with the State or with other persons. The author analyses a series of aspects of activity by means of which justice guarantees the protection of human dignity on the basis of the international covenants and treaties, which are part, directly or by means of the national legislation harmonized with them, of the Romanian legal system. In legal terms, man is conceived as a complex structure, where the physical can not be separated from the spiritual, while the infringement of one constitutive element or another is contrary to human rights. The jurisprudence she presents, the deciphering of the legal norms protecting the fundamental human rights and freedoms indicate the machinery that protects human dignity in its various forms.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 18-23
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian
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