Human rights are those basic standards, which are important for enabling people to live in safety and dignity.
Human rights protect our lives and our bodies from harm, allowing us to live as free persons, and to carry out different activities – to express ourselves, to learn new information, to meet with friends and like-minded people and so on.
To provide real and practical human rights, states have undertaken to explain and protect them by adopting the necessary laws.
In the Republic of Armenia, human rights in their most basic form have been explained – the in Armenia’s Constitution.
According to the Constitution, the respect for and protection of the fundamental rights and freedoms of the human being and the citizen is the duties of the public power. The public power is bound by the fundamental rights and freedoms of the human being and the citizen as the directly applicable law. But there are also other laws, which further explain what each right means, as well as what is allowed and what is prohibited.
example The Constitution says that you have the right to freely express your opinion. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions, as well as to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas by any means of information without interference by state or local self-government bodies and regardless of state frontiers. But it also describes that the freedom of expression of opinion may be restricted by law with the aim of protecting state security, the public order, health and morals, or honor and reputation of others, and other fundamental rights and freedoms.