Rules of nations and international law prohibiting all forms of discrimination based on religion or religious belief

• Authors: Dura Nicolae V.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Over the centuries, mankind has seen many manifestations of intolerance and discrimina- tion based on religion or religious belief, and, for this reason, the legislator of those times had to provide legal rules expressly prohibiting and eliminating them, while setting out concrete measures of legal protection against those who violated actually one of the main fundamental human rights, i.e. the right to freedom of religion or religious belief, and, ipso facto, the right to respect for human dignity. The ignorance of this fundamental human right also led to the agrant violation of one of the main principles of international law, namely the principle of tolerance and equality of all human beings. Therefore, in our study, we examined both the text of international instruments, with the legal force of “jus cogens,” and the national legislation, in order to reveal how the manifestations of the discrimination based on religion or religious beliefs were banned and removed from the human society, at national and international level.

PL

Przez wieki ludzkość była świadkiem zjawiska nietolerancji i dyskryminacji zbudowanej na religii lub poglądach religijnych. Z tego powodu prawodawcy stanowili prawa, które miały eliminować te zjawiska. Ochrona prawna przez przedmiotowymi zjawiskami jest obecnie jednym z najważniejszych fundamentów jednego z najważniejszych praw człowieka – prawa do wolności religijnej. Prawo to swoje ostateczne źródło ma w godności człowieka. Nieznajomość tego fundamentalnego prawa prowadzi także do pogwałcenia niektórych zasad prawa międzynarodowego, a szczególnie: zasady tolerancji i równości wszystkich ludzi. W niniejszym artykule przeanalizowano zarówno instrumenty prawa międzynaro- dowego, prawną moc „jus cogens”, i krajowe ustawodawstwo Rumunii w celu pokazania, jak okazywanie nietolerancji i dyskryminacji w sprawach religijnych może być zakazane i zwalczane na poziomie międzynarodowym i krajowym.

Keywords

EN

fundamental human rigts freedom of religion; internation instruments international law; religion; human dignity

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
• Journal: Annales Canonici
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 12
• Pages: 45-64

Dates

printed

2016-11-01

Contributors

author

Dura Nicolae V.

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Identifiers

DOI

dx.doi.org/10.15633/acan1819