"Human Rights" Journal

No.2 | 2015 | See the journal here



I. STUDIES, RESEARCH, ARTICLES

Irina Moroianu Zlătescu

New objectives for sustainable development

A future development program will be adopted by world leaders at the Special Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2015 in New York. The states have agreed on the draft outcome document that will build on the previous successes of the eight Millennium Development Goals adopted in 2000. The goals set out in the draft program for after 2015 go further, by addressing the root causes of poverty and the universal sustainable development needs of all peoples. In carrying out the program, an important role will be played by national institutions for human rights.

Keywords: Special Summit on Sustainable Development, human rights, the right to sustainable development, the right to a healthy environment, national institutions for human rights

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Gheorghe Iancu

Towards a new fundamental human right – the right to dignity

Human rights are nothing else than certain standards attained by each political state and social system having as central issue the human being defined as being abstract and rational. They are the international, regional and also European standards of the subjective and fundamental rights, regulated by a state, by its Constitution and by the laws for the residents of that respective state, according to which the abstract and rational person is thus converted into a citizen or a foreigner. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the first and most important international document which stipulates the need to defend human dignity, even if the Declaration is attached to the rights, but non-embedded in their category.

Keywords: human rights, human dignity, constitution, generation of rights

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Irina Moroianu Zlătescu

Human dignity and bioethics

The author presents and thoroughly analyzes the Convention of Oviedo for the protection of human rights and dignity of the human being with regard to the application of biology and medicine, an international legal instrument taking into account the various ethical, social and legal aspects of their impact. The basic idea to be found in the international documents devoted to the defence of Man's dignity, as an individual and as a species, is that the development of biology and the correlated sciences should primarily be done in the service of Man and only secondly in the service of science. The recent developments in the field of biomedical sciences and technologies tend to confer Man an immediate and uncontrolled power of managing his own biologic individuality with major risks for the universal and defining values of the human being. Bioethics is a new field that emerged in parallel with the huge step forward made by biomedical sciences in the last decades of the previous century. For a long time it has mainly been concerned with the technological developments in medicine while neglecting the moral and the legal aspects. At present, specialists in medicine, law, ethics, etc., take efforts to reconcile the technological evolution in medicine, particularly in the field of genetics, with the personality of the patient, who is a set of several „tissues" but a soul as well, with public control upon the development of genetic technologies, with the physician's uncontrolled power, with the profit making vs. the moral criteria, and with the legal norms. The weight each of these has at one moment or another in the evolution of society can lead to changes that may result in a loss of society's balance, which is quite fragile anyway. It is the present solutions – moral and legal – to the challenges raised by the biomedical sciences and technologies that the future of mankind and ultimately the future of the human species depends on.

Keywords: dignity, human rights, bioethics, genetic tehnologies

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Adrian Bulgaru

The family – its responsibilities in the field of education

Education is a complex and long-lasting process which begins at an early stage and continues throughout the whole life of the individual. It is a process of personal development training that prepares the individual as an active element of society. The family has an important role in educating children, supporting children from an early age and instilling respect for moral values and civic action which can be a model for young people who should become citizens of the community with a sense of responsibility, self-respect, self-confidence, with a correct and constructive mind set, treating people with respect and knowing how to make themselves respected by others. Education is the most important component of society which fully justifies supporting the involvement and responsibility of parents in the education and development of children, so that the positive effects could be extended for a long-term By investing in education we invest in the future, and this is without doubt the most important investment a person can make, since the support of education is a requirement, and an undeniable necessity.

Keywords: education of children, responsibility of parents, family, society

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Anna Maria Neagoe

The right to accessibility of disabled people

Accessibility of public space is essential for the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities and is a general obligation of states, by ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. However, better enforcement at national level of the legislation on mandatory accessibility of the physical environment, information and communications, along with more effective control of the relevant institutions could create the prerequisites for accessibility of public space.

Keywords: accessibility, reasonable accommodation, disability, disabled

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Mircea Ciocan

Organizational models of hospital and medical services in European countries

A health system can be viewed as a set of markets, interacting and interdependent while the institutionalized market of medical services is one of the links in this ensemble, being among the institutions that make up this market: hospitals, sanitariums, Balneoclimateric treatment facilities, specialized tertiary care centers etc. Public discourse focuses on hospitals for reasons both considering the significant volume of financial and human capital that is associated with them, as well as the increased flow of patients they support. The clinical context where patients have immediate access to hospital services is one of the reasons that public perception is often resistant to adopting market conditions in this sector. Financing the health sector is an essential factor for the organization and functioning of any health care system. Health care policy is closely tied to the financing sources of health services.

Keywords: public hospital funding hospitals, health systems

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II. JURIDICAL DOCUMENTATION

Working document concerning the protection of human rights and dignity of persons with mental disorder with regard to involuntary placement and involuntary treatment

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Rights of persons with disabilities in Romania – condensed report

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III. JURISPRUDENCE

Decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Rozalia Avram v. Romania

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Decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Farcaș v. Romania

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IV. SIGNAL

Mihaela Scarlat

The rights of people with autism

Adrian Bulgaru

Evolution of Romanian Law in the Context of Globalisation

Olivia Florescu

World Health Day

Anna Maria Neagoe

International Roma Day

Adrian Bulgaru

Romanian Judicial Encyclopaedia

Carmen Năstase

Patients` Rights – Between Theory and Practice

Olivia Florescu

Equal, yet different

Florin Trușcă

Europe Day

Claudia Kosina

International Day of Families

Grațian Urechiatu-Burian

Students` and Masters Students` National Scientific Communications Session

Teodor Lorenț

The Right to Good Governance

Daniela Albu

The Alliance of Civilisations – A Bridge between the East and the West. World Day for Cultural Diversity

Olivia Florescu

Current Legal Issues in the Financial and Banking Sector

Grațian Urechiatu-Burian

The Efficiency of Legal Norms – Perspectives on Law Interpretation and Application

Mariana Dumitru

World Environment Day

Mihaela Scarlat

Sustainable Development Goals for Parliaments in Central and Eastern Europe

Daniela Albu

Samuel Moyn, Do Human Rights Increase Inequality?, The Chronicle Review, 2015

Petru Emanuel Zlătescu

Gheorghe Boboș (coord.), Corina Buzdugan, Anca Mihaela Georoceanu, Elena Mihaela Fodor (editors), The efficiency of legal norms, Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2015

Mihaela Scarlat

Marilena Uliescu, Aurelian Gheorghe, Tiberiu Țiclea, Multiple Choice Tests for Knowledge Assessment. Civil Law, Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2015

Carmen Năstase

Legislative newsletter, no. 2/2015

Adrian Bulgaru

Permanent Electoral Authority, ”Expert Electoral” Journal, (Electoral Expert), no. 2(10) 2015

Valeriu Rendec

Human Rights Council, the 29th regular session

Daniela Albu

UNESCO – Monitoring Report: Education for All 2000-2015 – Achievements and Challenges, 2015

Daniela Albu

European Union Agency for Human Rights – Activity Report April - May 2015

Petru Emanuel Zlătescu

European Union Agency for Human Rights, Severe Labour Exploitation, 2015

Teodor Lorenț

Public Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle-East, Turkish Public Administration Annual, 2014

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V. REMEMBER

Remember

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