Harmony Higher Education Thesis

Michaela Stanová

Droits humains

What are human rights ?

Basic human rights include, for example, the right to life, personal freedom and security, freedom of expression, conscience, association, the right to assemble and others. They are universal rights of all human beings, independent of jurisdiction or other factors such as ethnic origin, nationality, religion, gender, etc.

• Human rights protect our lives and our persons from oppression and violence. They enable us to live as free people and carry out various activities without unauthorized interference - for example, to express ourselves freely, learn new information, meet friends and like-minded people, etc.
• In order for human rights to be truly realized in practice, states have undertaken to enshrine them in the relevant laws and thus provide them with the necessary protection.

• In Slovakia, human rights in their basic form are protected by the Constitution.
• However, the state also adopted several other implementing laws that further regulate what individual rights mean, what is allowed and what is prohibited.
• EXAMPLE The Constitution stipulates that you are guaranteed freedom of expression. But, for example, the press law regulates how to exercise this right in a way that does not harm other people who also have their rights.

Human rights at Slovakia

• first generation
• second generation
• third generation

Generetaions of humans rights at Slovakia

• Includes civil and political rights.
• They are rights that concern the freedom of the individual and his participation in political life.
• The state will ensure the observance of civil rights mainly by not restricting the individual in these rights.

First generation of human rights

Second generation of human rights

• They constitute economic, social and cultural rights.
• These rights relate to equal conditions and equal treatment and are related to the realization of the economic and social tasks of the state.
• States began to recognize them after the First World War. Unlike the first generation of human rights, state action is necessary to ensure the observance of the rights of the second generation.

• It represents rights that go beyond the framework of the first and second generations and includes a relatively wide range of rights that can be characterized as rights of solidarity.
• Ensuring the observance of these rights requires some form of participation and cooperation of several individuals and states.
• The realization of these rights goes beyond national borders and many times even the borders of regions or continents.

Third generation of human rights

QUESTIONNAIRE

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How many generations of human rights have there been in the Slovak Republic?

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What includes the first generation of human rights ?

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What do human rights protect?

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