Ensuring Human Rights within European and Inter-American Integration (Comparative Analysis)

Abstract

Human rights and freedoms and the guarantees of their security acquired the significance of the core values ​​of the legal process within the individual States and at the level of inter-state relationships. Integration processes and the creation of inter-state associations have had a significant impact on the development and effectiveness of systems to guarantee the rights and freedoms at the national, regional and global levels. Throughout the second half of the XX century, there is an active formation of systems of human rights protection in the various inter-state entities. The most ambitious of its distribution in space and effective in the context of the human right’s promotion are the European and Inter-American systems of human rights protection. The advantages of the regional human rights protection systems in comparison with the universal mechanisms to support them are: the availability of special territorial and legal space for human rights; the establishment of a list of standards for the protection of the rights and freedoms that are essential for the maintenance and sustainability of socio-cultural, political and economic ties within the appropriate space; the functioning of the interconnected competent supranational structures and institutions to provide within a specific territorial and legal environment protection of the rights and freedoms of the individuals. The protection of human rights is becoming a factor of the unification of the national legal order through the establishment of human rights standards within the legal space, covering a significant number of countries with common cultural, historical, political and legal traditions.