ABSTRACT

Discussion about reaffirming human rights aims to underscore and reaffirm our collective understanding that human rights are universal and that they cohere because they are based on the transcendent principles of human dignity and equality. This chapter proposes contemporary human rights that can be grouped into four categories: twentieth century individual freedoms and rights, protection, fairness, and redistribution. Until the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, rights were understood to be best summarized in two eighteenth-century declarations: the 1789 French Declaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen and the 1791 Bill of Rights. Inalienable and Inviolable Rights Andorra: The Constitution recognizes human dignity to be inalienable and therefore guarantees the inviolable and imprescriptible rights of the individual, which constitute the foundation of political order, social peace and justice. The chapter focuses on the number of states that mention individual human rights in their constitutions, and quote from one constitution that mentions that particular one.