The Importance Of Human Rights In The European Union

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I will write my research paper about Human Rights in European Union. The subject is very interesting and I hope I can make my Bachelor thesis about it and hopefully work with this kind of issues in the future. The Human Rights are important and I believe that this part of the area will change the most over the years. For example, women get more and more rights during the world is developing. Saudi Arabia was hitherto the only country where women were not allowed to vote. Now in December 2015 finally Saudi women are allowed to vote in elections. (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-women-elections.html) I will regard in this essay the importance of human rights activities of European organizations, particularly …show more content…

The Human Rights Convention the prohibition of discrimination applies only to the rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. Most of the other human rights treaties bans on discrimination applies to all government activities and legislation in member states. ¹⁰ European Convention on Human Rights does not prohibit all different treatment, but only the discrimination of special treatment. At the same time positive special treatment is allowed,which means the people in an unequal position, but it is justified by the aim. For example, gender quotas are permitted under Convention on Human Rights if their aim is to increase equality between the sexes.¹¹ The Council of Europe has given a number of declarations, recommendations and resolutions on equality between women and men. Council of Europe Assembly has recommended all member States to include in their constitutions the principle of equality. …show more content…

We have a lot of internationally binding agreements and it is great that in European Court of Human Rights where an individual can complain violation of human rights and the state may have to pay compensation if it violates individual rights. Europe is good place to live in because we have a lot of rights and a good chance of getting justice. Human rights supervision is good and the individual is able to complain higher level. But in the other parts of the world such as the Middle East and Asia, things are not so well like in Europe. The problem in my opinion is the lack of human rights. Many countries still have the death penalty and there is no equality between women and men. I hope these rights will develop and one day justice is there and all have the same rights in this world. While now the racism and intolerance are the main problems in Europe, particularly at this time, because the refugees have arrived in Europe and people are scared because they are afraid for their jobs and security. I think the people need to just accept the situation because the past cannot be changed and it would be better to focus on improving the

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