Formation of a strategy for national human rights protection as a pressing task
- Authors: Chechelnitsky I.V.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Kutafin University (MSAL)
- Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation
- Issue: No 3 (2025)
- Pages: 98–113
- Section: Rights and freedoms of a man and a citizen
- URL: https://snv63.ru/1026-9452/article/view/683021
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1026945225030099
- ID: 683021
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Abstract
The subject of the article is the formation of a national strategy for state human rights activities. An analysis of scientific views on the formation of a strategy for state human rights activities available in modern legal literature is carried out, the state of state protection of human rights is analyzed, strategic guidelines and opportunities for increasing the effectiveness of national state human rights activities are outlined, mechanisms for creating a strategic planning document in the field of human rights protection are proposed. Strategic human rights documents of more than 30 countries of the world are studied, their strengths and weaknesses are identified. During the analysis of these documents, in particular, issues about their content, characteristic and distinctive features, goals, objectives and principles, about the terms of validity and the procedure for adoption were studied.
Based on the conducted study of scientific literature, regulatory legal acts and state human rights practice, the author substantiates the need to adopt a national strategic document in the field of human rights protection in Russia at the federal level. His own vision of the conceptual approach to the concept, structure and main provisions of this document is proposed.
It was concluded that the adoption of this document will contribute to strengthening the national state human rights system in the context of increasing pressure from the collective West and the conduct of a special military operation.
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Ilya V. Chechelnitsky
Kutafin University (MSAL); Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation; Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation
Author for correspondence.
Email: iv89261863056@yandex.ru
PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory of State and Law, Head of the Office
Russian Federation, 9 Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya str., 123001 Moscow; 19 Smolensky Boulevard, 119121 MoscowReferences
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