EIRP Proceedings, Vol 10 (2015)

Abstract

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 was preceded by several other Declarations in the first half of the twentieth century, beginning with the Declaration of 1929 and ending with the one of 1947. All these Declarations make express reference only to the “Human rights” and not to those of the “individual” or of the “Citizen”, as in the Declaration of the French Revolution, in 1789, or in the one of the Bolshevik Revolution, in 1917. Among other things, in our paper, we emphasized that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains the first legal international instrument that imposed an unitary and universal conception regarding the human rights and fundamental freedoms, and, ipso facto, of the “Dignitas humana” (dignity of the human person), to which the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (Lisbon, 2007) would make express reference.