From human rights to essential rights
Publication date
2018-11-22
ISBN
978-886629-015-5, 978-83-62753-94-9
Editors
Magdalena Sitek, Laura Tafaro, Michele Indellicato
The traditional concept of human rights recognized them as a category of claims
of the individual to the community and its structures, including the state. Frequently
the issue of the responsibility of the individual toward community and
its rights regarding the individual is overlooked. In the face of globalization
rights of the community play more and more important role. The reason of this
fact is that community is the natural environment of human beings and allows
them to satisfy their basic needs.
The editors of this paper, on a base of the concepts and the presentations during
the 15th International Conference on Human Rights held on 1-2 June 2015 in
Józefów, subarea of Warsaw, decided to systematize the collected materials so
that publication shows both the human needs and rights while respecting the
responsibilities of individual towards the community at the same time.
The structure of this monograph is based not only on the concept of human
rights, but also human needs. The issues of rights and human needs in the community
together with the issue of human duties towards the community were
places in the first part of this joint publication. Subsequently they are discussed
rights of nations, especially right to self-determination and the right to good administration,
which became the main measure of the rule of law. Next are discussed
human rights to the clean environment and human obligations towards
the environment. An important group of issues is the contribution of religion
to the concept of human rights. In the end, human rights are considered in the
context of civil law solutions.
Editors