Готовый перевод Мониторинг соблюдения права на справедливый суд в Украине / Report "Monitoring of observance of the right to a fair trial in Ukraine in 2017": Права человека созданы во времена волнений

Thomas Schirrmacher, Prof. Dr.

President of the International Council of the ISHR

The International Society of Human Rights connects sections of human rights defenders from many countries on all continents.

Human rights have not been hammered out by the global community for sunshine weather and vacation time, but in 1948 after the most devastating war of all times. Human rights even started out before that time as rules for war times as the Red Cross rules, to have minimum standards even in war.

Thus times of turmoils, civil war and even war are not times to give up on human rights, but are times to even more emphasize that all human beings share the same human dignity and human rights and that the major and most honorable task of all States is to preserve them.

I like to compare human rights organizations to shops with a window to the street and goods to sell in the shop and warehouse behind. There are organizations who have a great shop window with wonderful show cases, but if you go inside the shop to buy something, you find that most of the window is blatancy and show, and does not exist in reality.

With the ISHR it is just the other way round: Inside the shop we have much to offer, great experts, devoted people, courageous activities, a great history. But the shop window does not demonstrate this to outsiders always. Yet this is the better way: Being active in reality and available to those in need!

The human rights label is ingenious, and one can derive the most important characteristics of human rights from it.

Human rights are universal. They simply apply to “people.”

Human rights are individual since people exist only as individual persons.

They are, however, also social, since there is never only one person. Rather, there are always people in society, and rights apply to everyone at the same time.

They are egalitarian because they are derived from what it is that makes being human the same and not from what differentiates people or is conferred upon them.

Human rights exist prior to the state because being human precedes everything else.

Human rights are enforceable, i.e., they are not only observations, appeals, or demands; rather, they are rights that can be enforced in a court of law.

They are indivisible because people are themselves indivisible and people stand in the center; no political system or ideology is in the center.

They are inalienable (meaning they cannot be taken away from a person) since an individual, even in the worst situation or as a criminal, remains a human being.

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