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Overview on International Human Rights
International Human Rights
Your presenter today:

Major Attila Kulcsár
Hungarian National Police Human Resource Management Service Education Management and Training Departmert

International Experience
UNTAC Cambodia 1992-93 MINURSO West-sahara 1995-96 UNMIBH BIH RS 1997-98 UNMIBH BIH FED 1999-00 EUPOL Proxima MK 2004-05 OSCE Mission to Skopje 2008-12

Brainstorming
What is the first word that comes up your mind in connection with HUMAN RIGHTS?

DEFINITION
HUMAN RIGHTS are the rights that all people have by virtue of being human beings. HUMAN RIGHTS are derived from the inherent dignity of the human being and are defined internationally, nationally and locally by various law making bodies.

DEFINITION
HUMAN RIGHTS is defined as the supreme, inherent, and inalienable rights to life, to dignity, and to self-development. It is concerned with issues in both areas of civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights founded on internationally accepted human rights obligations

HUMAN RIGHTS
RIGHTS – moral power to hold (rights to life, nationality, own property, rest and leisure), to do (rights to marry, peaceful assembly, run for public office, education), to omit (freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment, freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention or exile) or to exact something (equal protection of the law, equal access to public service, equal pay for equal work) HUMAN RIGHTS coined by Eleanor Roosevelt to replace Rights of Man NATURE – Human rights are more than legal concepts: they are the essence of man. They are what make man human. That is why they are called human rights; deny them and you deny man’s humanity.

Characteristics of Human Rights
Universal Internationally guaranteed Legally protected Protects individuals and groups Cannot be taken away Equal and indivisible Obliges States and State actors

Legal basis - UN Charter
Sets the promotion of and respect for human rights for all as

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