"Human Rights" Journal

No.1 | 2014 | See the journal here



I. STUDIES, RESEARCH, ARTICLES

Anna Maria Cun Neagoe

Disability – a human rights issue

With the paradigm shift from the medical to the social approach, disability was reclassified as a human rights issue. This is supported by several international documents. The latest and most important one is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a document whose purpose is to promote, to protect and to provide full exercise of all the fundamental human rights by all persons with disabilities, without discrimination based on disability. A disability legislation based on human rights acts as a "civilizing factor" is needed in any society that respects diversity and aims to create a truly open society for all. 

Keywords: disability, persons with disabilities, human rights, international conventions and instruments, The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

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Isabela Stancea

Human rights in United Nations documents

The United Nations Organization was created to maintain international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among states with the principle of respect the equality of rights for all nations. In over 60 years of existence, the UN has conducted a rich and complex activity, following events that have succeeded in the international community in the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the XXI century. Even if there were situations where the UN has proven incapable of making decisions in times of crisis, the international community of states, increasingly facing more and more numerous and complex challenges, would still need this organization.

Keywords: international, security policies, universality

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Istvan Gaspar

Regulatory aspects of the status of parliamentary civil servant in the EU member states

Parliamentary civil servants hold a special place in the system of public positions. They are subject to a particular statutory regime, which nevertheless does not place them “beyond the law”, as they are applied the same principles of law that govern the public position in general, while enjoying the rights and obeying the obligations applicable to all public servants. The author makes a comparative analysis of the status of parliamentary civil servants in EU Member States, while pointing out the peculiarities as well as the common principles: impartiality, neutrality, and independence of the administration in relation to political groups, transparency and uniformity of the services.

Keywords: parliamentary civil servant, impartiality, independence, administration, constitution

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Irina Moroianu Zlătescu

Migration and law issues related to legislation on migration in Romania

EU accession has led in recent years to substantial changes in the legal rules governing the regime of foreigners in Romania, as citizens of the Member States of the European Union and the European Economic Area, as well as in the rules of law governing asylum in Romania, in order to ensure compliance with European legislation and other international legal instruments to which the Romanian state is a party. Romania has a specific immigration policy according to the needs identified at the national level, taking into account the impact that this could have on other EU Member States; this policy aims to ensure fair treatment and harmonious integration of foreigners in Romanian society. In recent years, although Romania had largely remained transit state, it is also becoming more and more a destination state. The main purposes for which foreigners have established their temporary residence in Romania are largely related to the right to family reunification, education, employment.

Keywords: asylum, asylum seekers, minimum standards, refugee, migration, human trafficking

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Mircea Ciocan

Health reform trends in Romania

The world Sanitary systems are classified according to their efficiency in transforming health expenditure. We are considering here, the correlation of health care spending, adjusted according to local prices and to health insurance. However, the experience of European countries has shown that reform consists not only in implementing radical initiatives, but also in creating and maintaining a political, legislative, administrative and technical framework able to monitor and adjust the implemented changes. Once structural changes are implemented, the role of the central administration would be that of operating these mechanisms, in order to achieve the targeted results by sustained monitoring and regulated efforts.

Keywords: public health system, the right to health, hospitals, patients, public administration reform, decentralization, management

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II. ROMANIAN INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ANNUAL REPORT

Romanian Institute for Human Rights Annual Report - 2013

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III. JURIDICAL DOCUMENTATION

The right to political participation for persons with disabilities

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IV. JURISPRUDENCE

Anna Maria Cun Neagoe

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

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Marius Mocanu

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

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V. SIGNAL

Petru Emanuel Zlătescu

International Year of the Family, 2014

Marius Mocanu

The Role of National Parliaments in the Activity of the UN Human Rights Council

Daniela Albu

European Action Week Against Racism, March 15-23, 2014: ‘We fit together!’, ‘Diversity=Power’, The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – March 21

Anna Maria Cun Neagoe

March 21, 2014 – Down Syndrome Day ‘Rights and a Quality Life for People with Down Syndrome’

Olivia Florescu

World Water Day, March 22, 2014

Daniela Albu

European Union Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) Activities

Anna Maria Cun Neagoe

International Perspectives on Spinal Cord Injury, World Health Organisation, 2013, 231 pages

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VI. REMEMBER

Remember

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