Human — Know your Rights: Human Rights as per European Convention

Justice for Peace
Justice for Peace
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5 min readMay 5, 2024

As a Human Beings we have Rights. These Legal Rights are our Legal Human Rights. And they are Protected by Law. No one should degrade another. And no one shall accept to downgrade his life and life below his standards, and human rights.

No human can ever enjoy real Peace without Justice. The lack of justice impacts on the absence of freedom to enjoy Peace. It is not enough to be a peaceful person, when the unpeaceful crime to remove our peace.

No Human being shall ever feel lo or victimized due to the violation of his Legal Human Rights.

Lest you have forgotten your worth and humanity. Though we cannot contol the tresspassings of others, the Law is here to Protect our Human Rights.

I am here today to ensure you have your Human Rights Respected.

Our Human Rights must not only be know, remembered, respected, but above all, human beings must have a clear path to legal to ensure the stability of their human rights. The violation of human rights is punisheable by Law.

The Path to Law and Justice is a Legal Right for every Citizen. Never give up fighting for justice, even if lawyers you call don’t feel like serving. We are here to end that too.

For there is no Peace without Justice.

European Convention on Human Rights

1. The Legal Human Right to LIFE

Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law.

This right is one of the most important of the Convention since without the right to life it is impossible to enjoy the other rights

2. The Legal Human Right for Private and Family Life

Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.

This right embodies the right to a name, the right to change one’s civil status and to acquire a new identity, and protection against telephone tapping, collection of private information by a State’s security services and publications infringing privacy. This right also enables members of a national minority to have a traditional lifestyle.

3. Freedom of Expression

Article 9: Everyone has the right to freedom of expression and to receive and impart information. This right also covers the freedom of the press. Freedom of expression is one of the essential foundations of a democratic society. The media require particular protection because they play a key role in defending freedom of expression. Article 10 protects, among others, the right to criticise, to make assumptions or value judgments and the right to have opinions.

Such protection is not restricted to “true” statements; it applies in particular to political speech and debate on questions of public interest. Freedom of expression plays a key role in elections. Artistic expression is also protected by Article 10.

4. Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Everyone is entitled to change his or her religion or conviction and is free to express that religion whether individually or collectively, publicly or privately. All recognised beliefs are protected by this right. One of the present-day issues of respect for freedom of thought, conscience and religion is embodied, at both international and national level, in the upsurge of religious intolerance. The questions concerning the status of sects are also linked with the exercise of this freedom.

5. Legal Human Right to Vote

Everyone has the Legal Human Right to Participate in electing his country’s government by means of free elections

Everyone has the right to elect the government of his/her country by secret vote. Without this right there can be no free and fair elections. It guarantees the citizens’ free expression, the proper representativeness of elected representatives and the legitimacy of the legislative and executive bodies, and by the same token enhances the people’s confidence in the institutions.

6. Legal Human Right of Fair Trial

Everyone is entitled to a fair public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent, impartial tribunal.

Everyone is entitled to a fair public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent, impartial tribunal. All persons charged with an offence shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty. They have the right to be defended by a lawyer. They must be promptly informed in detail, in a language which they understand, of the nature and the cause of the charge brought against them. All defendants must also have the necessary time and facilities to prepare their defence, conduct their own defence or obtain assistance from counsel of their choice, or be assisted free of charge by an interpreter if they do not understand or speak the language used at the hearing. The tribunal must be independent and impartial, and be established by law. Despite the justice reports of the last few years, proceedings must not be of undue length considering what is at stake in the proceedings. The right to a fair trial has pride of place in a democratic society.

7. Protection of Property

Everyone is Entitled by Law to the Peaceful Enjoyment of His Legally Acquired Possessions

Everyone has the right to own property and use its possessions. No-one shall be deprived of his property unless public necessity so demands. If so, the State must guarantee fair compensation.

Presented as a natural right in 1789, but a source of intense controversies from the time of the French Revolution and even more so during the following century, this right had been excluded, after lengthy discussions, from the European Convention on Human Rights itself. The conflicting political conceptions of the right of ownership — an individual right having a social function — and the desire of States to have full freedom of action regarding economic questions, finally led to a compromise: insertion of a text that secured protection of property, not in the body of the European Convention on Human Rights but in the first Protocol thereto, signed on 20 February 1952.

Resources:

European Convention of Human Rights

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