Correlations between the evolution of international relations and perfecting the international means of protecting human rights

• Author: Elena Paraschiv
• Position: Faculty of Law and Public Administration, Râmnicu Vâlcea, "Spiru Haret" University, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania
• Pages: 149-154

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

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

No. 4 (2013), pp. 149-154

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CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE EVOLUTION OF

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND PERFECTING THE

INTERNATIONAL MEANS OF PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS

E. Paraschiv

Elena Paraschiv

Faculty of Law and Public Administration, Râmnicu Vâlcea,

“Spiru Haret” University, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania

*Correspondence: Elena Paraschiv, Râmnicu Vâlcea, 30 General Magheru St., Vâlcea,

Romania

E-mail: e.paraschiv.dvl@spiruharet.ro

Abstract

The evolution of relations between states made necessary the establishment, at an

international level, of certain behavioural regulations and fundamental principles, whose

violation may cause prejudices to the collaboration relationships developed among states.

Thus, over time these were consecrated by customary rules, treaties or other international

conventions, imperative norms of conduct, which are strictly imposed to all partners at

international juridical relations

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Moreover, international norms which aim at respecting the fundamental human rights

and liberties were adopted, thus contributing to the defense of the universal values of

humanity.

Key words: international methods of protecting human rights, improvement,

international relations, correlation, historical evolution

Introduction

Over the years, societies defined, implicitly or explicitly, in juridical terms or without

using them, the rights and obligations of their members, taking into account their needs and

social aspirations, so that the „history of the human rights is mistaken for the history of

humanity”

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.

The problem of protecting human rights is fundamentally related to the relations

between humans and their social environment, which are not meant to last, thus legally,

abstract rights do not exist, as the form of right, like any other normative system, is in itself

the reflection of a certain social order

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.

The evolution of international means of human rights protection

Even though there were some concepts of a humanistic nature in the Antiquity period

or in the political theory of the Middle Ages, the concept of „human rights” was consolidated

in the period of intellectual preparation for the bourgeois revolutions in Europe

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, and the

apparition of a coherent theory and some actual practices regarding the protection of these

1

Duculescu V., 2002, Instituii de drept public i relaii internaionale în dinamic, Lumina Lex Publishing,

Bucharest, p. 73.

2

Mbaye K., 1991, Les droits de l’homme et des peuples, in Droit International, Bilan et Perspectives, coordinator

Mohammed Bedjaoui, Pedone Publishing, Paris, p. 111.

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Tomuschat Ch., 1981, International Standards and Cultural Diversity, H R Teaching Publishing, p. 2.

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Nstase A., 2004, Destinul contemporan al dreptului internaional. Re flecii dintr-o perspectiv european,

Universitatea „Nicolae Titulescu” Publishing, Bucharest, p. 17 3.