"Human Rights" Journal

No.4 | 2015 | See the journal here



I. STUDIES, RESEARCH, ARTICLES

Ioan Voicu, Florina Voicu

The galaxy of knowledge and sustainable development

The article includes a brief analysis of the global education system from the perspective of the relevant provisions included in the programmatic document entitled ”Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, adopted by the UN Summit on 25 September 2015, as well as in the light of the latest UNESCO recommendations aimed at ensuring education a priority in the knowledge galaxy. Following a series of preliminary observations, significant aspects and data on the relatively modest results of the global implementation of the UN and UNESCO recommendations on education are presented, summarizing the ambitious goals set in this area for 2030, highlighting the contribution of educators in materializing these objectives, in accordance with the fundamental rights to education and development. In this context, the vital importance of reforms and proper coordination in all education sectors is emphasized. At the end of the article, are highlighted the latest positions expressed by UNESCO in relation to future priority actions to endow education with the transformative force it must exert in the global process of sustainable development.
 

Keywords: education, educator, sustainable development, UN, UNESCO, AS agenda, declaration, diplomacy, negotiations, rights, promotion, implementation, aspiration, globalization, strategy, programmes, recommendations, young people, students, universality

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Irina Moroianu Zlătescu

Legal protection of persons belonging to minorities (I)

Current international standards reflect the stage that has been reached in regulating the rights of persons belonging to minorities, showing us the difficulties faced by the states to find generally acceptable legal solutions for the implementation of the signed agreements under conditions of a great diversity of laws and regulations on the protection of the rights of these persons. To be noted that the protection of minorities followed the same steps as the development of individual rights and freedoms in general, assimilating the recognized right to religious beliefs and to practicing another religion than the majority, as that of preserving the ethnic features compared to the majority culture. Through the work of the League of Nations the protection of minorities has entered a new stage, experiencing definite progress, and then after the Second World War, the United Nations has conferred to the human rights approaches a character of universality that resonates with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the approach and interpretation of the provisions regarding the rights of minorities it is important to understand that they relate to the rights of individuals, of persons and not of groups, which is a prerequisite in the process of understanding the rights of minorities’ controversial issue which involves the need for an as rigorous as possible definition of the minority groups.

Keywords: ethnic minority cultural identity, mother tongue, religious freedom, non-discrimination

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Mihai Milca

The crisis of democracy, rule of law and human rights

Democracy, the rule of law and human rights are interconnected both in structure as well as in substance. Modern and postmodern times have seen disconcerting developments that indicate the fact that human rights have become a sine qua non condition for the reconfiguration of a state governed by the rule of law. The mutations and moments of crisis that have accompanied the global process of “democratization” have also drawn our attention to the necessity that calls for a state governed by the rule of law to become the guarantor and protector of human rights. These rights must not be just solemn or rhetorical declarations but must ensure the legitimacy of the state’s internal policies, as well as a humanitarian approach to international relations.

Keywords: democracy, the crisis of democracy, the rule of law, human rights

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Ioan Liviu Chircă

Terrorism, a serious violation of human rights

This study approaches terrorism, as a complex phenomenon which is affecting human rights. After a brief outline of terrorism, it highlights the effects of terrorism on human rights, the natural result of which is the firm obligation incumbent upon Member States in general, as well as upon the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe, the European Union and Romania in the context of the fight against terrorism. This paper concludes by stating the main features of the fight against terrorism while respecting human rights and by presenting a summary of national and international laws on this subject.

Keywords: terrorism, conflict situations, aggression, human rights actions

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Grațian Urechiatu-Burian

Basic principles governing the local public administration

This scientific approach aims to highlight the principles underlying the organization and functioning of local public administration. The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyse these principles. The paper is structured as follows: general issues regarding the notion of principle; fundamental principles of public administration; fundamental principles of local administration; conclusions and proposals.

Keywords: the principle of legality, the principle of autonomy, the principle of good administration, public administration, local public administration

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Ioana Anca Iancu

Equality of treatment and non-discrimination in terms of the right to work

The fundamental right to work and the social protection of labor as regulated by the Constitution provides everyone’s right to choose one’s profession, trade or occupation, the place of work, freedom to exercise or not a particular work, prohibition of forced labor, the right to social protection and equitable remuneration, the right to collective bargaining and the mandatory conclusion of agreements and employment contracts. Both international, as well as domestic regulations on the fundamental right to work refer to the means and mechanisms for the implementation of this right, of social protection with all that entails, prevention and elimination of discrimination, of non-compliance with equal opportunities and the wage gap between men and women.

Keywords: right to work, freedom of profession, working conditions, equal treatment, working conditions, salary

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II. ROMANIAN INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ANNUAL REPORT

IRDO – Annual report for the year 2015

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III. JURIDICAL DOCUMENTATION

Evolution of the human rights legislation in the European Union and in Romania in the year 2015 – IRDO report

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End of mission declaration by Philip Alston, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on extreme poverty and human rights

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A human rights-based approach to data: guidance note to data collection and disaggregation to leave no one behind in the 2030 Development Agenda

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IV. JURISPRUDENCE

Decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Buceaș and Buciaș v. Romania

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V. SIGNAL

Daniela Albu

The first Asia-Europe Educational Forum in Bucharest, October 7-11, 2015

Mihaela Scarlat

Women in Parliaments Global Forum Summit

Carmen Năstase

Respecting fundamental human rights and liberties, and international human rights treaties in the case of persons of Romanian citizenship and not only, who are in any form of detention on the Romanian territory

Daniela Albu

International Day of Rural Women

Mihaela Scarlat

70 years since the foundation of the United Nations

Adrian Bulgaru

Clarity project launching

Olivia Florescu

The International Conference ‘Law and Public Administration – responsibility and legal liability in exercising regulated professions’, 4th edition, November 5-6, 2015, Târgu Mureș

Daniela Albu

The annual International Conference `Law and Administrative Justice from an interdisciplinary perspective’, 2nd edition, November 20-22, 2015, Bucharest

Alexandra Bucur

Exercising the right to non-discrimination and gender equality in the contemporary society, The International Conference on Non-discrimination and Gender Equality – NEDES 2015

Gheorghe Pârvan

The Competition between Judges in Europe: the issue of dialogue

Marius Mocanu

Our Rights. Our Freedoms. Forever

Daniela Albu

Activities of the European Union Agency for Human Rights (FRA), October – December 2015

Mihaela Scarlat

Aurelian Gherghe, The theory of law conflicts in the new Civil Code (2nd edition, revised and amended), Contrast Publishing House, Bucharest

Alexandra Bucur

Revue Européenne du droit social, the first annual conference ”Law and Administrative Justice from an interdisciplinary perspective”, Bibliotheca Publishing House, Târgoviște, 2015

Gheorghe Pârvan

Aurelian Gherghe, Civil Law. The Family, Contrast Publishing House, Bucharest, 2014

Adrian Bulgaru

Gheorghe Iancu, Vlad Alexandru Iancu, The right to asylum. In comparative perspective to the legal status of refugees, Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2015

Olivia Florescu

Iordan Gheorghe Bărbulescu, New Europe. Identity and European Model, Polirom Publishing House, Iași, 2015

Ioana Anca Iancu

Csaba Bela Nasz, Insolvency Prevention Procedures, Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2015

Teodor Lorenț

Costel Gâlcă, Labour Code – comments and annotations, Rosetti International Publishing House, Bucharest, 2015

Ioana Anca Iancu

Mihaela Sărăcuț, Participants in the Insolvency Procedure, Universul Juridic Publishing House, Bucharest, 2015

Carmen Năstase

Adrian Roșan, coord., Special Psycho-pedagogy. Evaluation and Intervention Models, Polirom Publishing House, Bucharest, 2015

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VI. REMEMBER

Remember

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VII. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of contents - 2015

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In Memoriam Karel Vasak Ph.D. Professor (June 26, 1929-May 1, 2015)

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