Human rights and Council of Europe - Rui Gomes

Human RightsEducation

KnowledgeAttitudesActionFor human rights

Human rights…Human rights…

Entitlements we deserve to have and ought to have because we are human beings.

- A minimal set of standards…

Human rights

a minimum set of values and accompanying standards regulating, in particular, the very unequal relationship between the individual and the state.

Internationally agreed Of universal nature To be guaranteed by the state

”All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”

UDHR, article 1

The right to humanity

Which rights?...Which rights?...

Civil rights and libertiesCivil rights and liberties Legal rightsLegal rights Political rightsPolitical rights Social rightsSocial rights Economic rightsEconomic rights Cultural rightsCultural rights Solidarity rightsSolidarity rights

UniversalUniversal

IndivisibleIndivisible

InterdependentInterdependent

InalienableInalienableDéclaration de Vienne, 1993

All human rights are...

All human rights are:All human rights are:HumanHumanHumanHumanHumanHuman

Human rights based approach Human rights considerations

take the primacy over other factors

Human rights are mainstreamed

HR as a network of interlocking attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, norms and regulations

granted rights

and natural rights

to human rights

From...

Universal Declarati

on of Human Rights

Covenant on Social and Economic Rights

Covenant on Social and Economic Rights

Specific conventions and instruments

International Bill of Rights

European Convention on Human European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Rights and Fundamental FreedomsFreedoms

Convention on the Prevention of Convention on the Prevention of Torture and Degrading TreatmentTorture and Degrading Treatment

European Social CharterEuropean Social Charter Framework Convention on Framework Convention on

National MinoritiesNational Minorities ......

Regional systems of protection of HRRegional systems of protection of HR Decolonisation movementsDecolonisation movements Effective control mechanismsEffective control mechanisms Conv. on Elimination of Racial DiscriminationConv. on Elimination of Racial Discrimination The Convention on the Rights of the The Convention on the Rights of the ChildChild The CEDAWThe CEDAW Special Courts for Yugoslavia and RwandaSpecial Courts for Yugoslavia and Rwanda The International Criminal CourtThe International Criminal Court Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRights of Persons with Disabilities

Very Recently...Very Recently...

Looking further up...Looking further up...

Internet and human rightsInternet and human rights Intergenerational mattersIntergenerational matters Climate changeClimate change ...?...? ...?...?

FAQs and dilemmasFAQs and dilemmas

Universal, special or specific Universal, special or specific rights?rights?

Universal or absolute?Universal or absolute? A Western creation?A Western creation? Human rights and cultural Human rights and cultural

practicespractices Political abuse of human rightsPolitical abuse of human rights Rights vs ResponsibilitiesRights vs Responsibilities

A look ahead?...A look ahead?...

Equality Freedom

Solidarity?

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.Pablo Neruda