Vocab Human Rights

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The Bill on Human Rights

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Comprises the universal declaration of human rights, the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights and the international covenant on civil and political rights

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Convention

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Agreement concluded between states; treaty. It is legally binding for the states that ratify it.

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Covenant

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Treaty, convention; agreement between states

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Court

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Tribunal, permanent jurisdictional authority

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Declaration

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Document whose signatories express their agreement with given aims, objectives and principles. A declaration's content constitutes a moral obligation but is not, legally binding.

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Dignity

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Human Dignity implies the capacity of making one's own deliberate choices and consequently being acknowledged as a free subject. Dignity is said to be inherent

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Ethics

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Science of the principles governing human action and judgement, which is based on duty and aimed at the good

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Human Rights

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am inalienable right inherent to all men and women due to the mere fact that they are human beings

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International Custom

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Non-written law considered as binding because of its long use and practice

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International instrument

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Generic term designating international declarations and conventions

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Law

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The body of obligatory rules that determine social relations. Subdivided into natural law(the right to life) and positive law( the right to private property).

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a person before the law

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A person is considered to be both conscious and free and consequently is entitled to rights and subject to the law

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Protocol

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Agreement which completes and international treaty, convention, and which has the same legal force as the initial document

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Public freedom

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Freedoms which are guaranteed and protected by the state

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Ratification

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Approval of a treaty, convention or other document by competent bodies, thereby securing a states commitment to it.

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Recommendation

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International text issued by a UN organ to a state or other UN organ which, in theory, does not constitute and obligation

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Reserve

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Unilateral declaration by a state which does not intend to comply to all the articles or sections of an international treaty or convention.

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Resolution

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Text adopted by a deliberative body of an international organization

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Rule of law

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The requirement that the state provides legal guarantees for rights which uphold the dignity of the individual, and that it abides by the rules set forth in its constitution

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Special Rapporteur

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Independent expert designated to examine and report on human rights violations in a given country or in relation to a specific issue

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State

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Political, judicial and administrative organization acting as leading organ of a given society nation or group of nations organized in a government and subject to a common legislation

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Treaty

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Agreement or convention signed by two or more governments

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Trial Procedure

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Procedure which implies the examination of a cause before a competent tribunal.

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Universality

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Human rights are universal, meaning that every human is given the rights.