Considerations on the 'International Charter of Human Rights'

• Author: Tudor Tanasescu
• Position: Faculty of Law, 'Bioterra' University from Bucharest, Romania
• Pages: 72-76

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicalj ournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 2 (2014), pp. 72-76

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CONSIDERATIONS ON THE "INTERNATIONAL CHARTER OF HUMAN

RIGHTS"

T. Tnsescu

Tudor Tanasescu

Faculty of Law, "Bioterra" University from Bucharest, Romania

* Correspondence: Tudor Tanasescu, Pescarusului Street, no. 3, Flat B-24.3, Floor 6,

Apartment 145, Sector 2, Bucharest, Romania.

E-mail: tanasescutudor@yahoo.com

Abstract

"International Charter of human rights" is generic name under which shall meet the

main international instruments relating to human rights, namely: Universal Declaration of

Human Rights, the International Pact on civil and political rights, the International Pact on

economic, social and cultural rights and the two optional Protocols at International Pact on

civil and political rights. Documents forming "The Charter of International human rights"

have represented international instruments which have been triggered an active process in

the evolution of legal instruments and mechanisms consecrating and protection of the human

being in universal and regional plan.

In this way at the international relations the man is now a supreme value to be

protected and promoted.

Key words: charter, consecration, protection, human rights, non-discrimination.

Introduction

"International Charter of human rights" represented by the five international

documents constitutes the international legal frame that marks significant changes in process

of establishing a system for the protection of human rights at the level of the United Nations

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.

These international instruments are:

1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights;

2. International Pact on civil and political rights;

3. The international pact for the economic, social and cultural rights;

4. Optional protocol of the International Pact on civil and political rights;

5. The second optional protocol of the International Pact on civil and political rights.

The idea of making a "book of human rights" was born at the Conference in San

Francisco from April to June 1945 (when was adopted the U.N. Charter - 26 June 1945), but

steps taken in this respect have not been retained by the Conference and, in the end, the U.N.

Charter they have laid down a few general provisions relating to fundamental human rights

and freedoms.

Further proposals to the compilation of "Charter human rights" have resulted after the

constitution within the framework of the Economic and Social Commission of Human Rights

(16 February 1946). The Commission has been therefore entrusted to draw up "International

Charter on human rights". Due to object sensitivity of this rules which was that the

development of treated in the grounds may have been difficult enough, the Commission

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