THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND FAMILY LIFE
The first pronouncement on the right to respect for privacy and family is set out in the Universal Declaration stipulating that ‘no-one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence’ and that ‘the family is the fundamental group unit of society entitled to protection by society and the state’. Today the right to respect for private and family life has come to encompass a wide range of areas. Privacy applies to a wide spectrum ranging from phone tapping to sexual orientation, while prominent issues regarding the right to respect for family include the rights of parents to contact with their children, remarriage and adoptions. This chapter examines....
a) the right to respect for private and family life
b) the right to marry and found a family.
A. *The right to respect for private and family life *
The right to respect for privacy mirrors the liberal concept of the individual’s freedom as a self-governing being as long as his/her actions do not interfere with the rights and freedoms of others. The right to privacy is the right to individual autonomy that is violated when states interfere with, penalise, or prohibit actions that essentially only concern the individual, such as not wearing safety equipment at work or committing suicide. States justify such interferences with the social costs of the actions prohibited, for instance to the health care system.
The right to privacy encompasses the right to protect a person’s intimacy, identity, name, gender, honour, dignity, appearance, feelings and sexual orientation. The right to privacy may be limited in the interests of others, under specific conditions, provided that the interference is not arbitrary or unlawful. People cannot be forced to change their appearance or name, for instance, nor can they be prohibited from changing their name or sex; however, in the interests of the rights of others they may, for example, be compelled to give biological samples for the determination of paternity. Another exception could be lawful counter-terrorism surveillance that necessarily operates in breach of privacy rights. Such a breach is acceptable as long as it accords with judicial and parliamentary oversight. The right to privacy extends to the home, the family and correspondence. The term family relates, for example, to blood ties, economic ties, marriage and adoption.
The right to the respect for privacy of the home has been interpreted to include place of business. A common interference with the privacy of correspondence has to do with secret surveillance and censorship of the correspondence of prisoners.
Finally, with the propagation of computer technology and automated data processing, states are obliged to ensure effective data protection as public authorities and commercial organisations are in a position to exploit personal data threatening the privacy of individuals.
B. The right to marry and found a family
Marriage and family are ancient institutions, recognised for centuries as the foundation of society. Like other aspects of society, family life and even the concept of ‘family’ has undergone rapid changes and evolution in recent times, resulting in varied regulations aiming at, for instance, guaranteeing equal rights of both spouses or partners in a relationship, when it comes to children and regulating adoptions. The state has an obligation to establish marriage and family as institutions under law, but at the same time to respect a person’s freedom to enter into marriage and the equal rights of both partners. For instance, an absolute ban on divorce based on religion violates the right to marry and prisoners cannot be prohibited to marry.
The family is entitled to special protection under a number of international standards
In regard to the state’s duty to protect the family, the African Commission has found that the forcible exile of political activists and expulsion of foreigners was in violation of the duties to protect and assist the family, as it forcibly broke up the family unit
In this context, obligations of states include registering children after birth, ensuring that they enjoy the right to a name and nationality, and that they are not subject to discrimination (for instance, those born out of wedlock). Children are to be protected against physical and moral dangers, social and family benefits shall be provided and mothers and children shall be guaranteed special protection. Migrant workers and their families also merit special protection.
Yo I thought this was a bit suspicious. After reading it, there was no actual opinion, you just came out with facts and statements which sounds very much written like an article. Based on this I just took a simple google search copying your text and what do you know. Almost everything word for word. I mean if you are going to copy and paste at least try to reword things. Link provided below where you copied all these words. Not cool bro. This is just straight plagiarizing. @galenkp . Thought you would wanna confirm my suspicions
https://www.humanrights.is/en/human-rights-education-project/human-rights-concepts-ideas-and-fora/substantive-human-rights/the-right-to-privacy-and-family-life
Thanks mate, I appreciate you speaking up.
Your welcome. I saw his past posts too . They also seem copy pasted. Oh wells even writing our own introduction and talking about ourself needs to be copy pasted. Has this world become this lazy? I'm speechless man.😂
Don't worry, his reputation score has already come down from 30-somthing to 7 because of my downvote...It'll go all the way below 0 and no one will see the users posts anymore. I also reported the post to Hive Watchers.
Oh wow. I have a question then. What if people abuse that downvote just because they don't like someone. Is there a way to defend ourself against that? I don't think I'll ever make someone mad but who knows you know sometimes there's always one hater out there that can be jealous or etc ~
That happens. I was downvoted by someone for several months, about $10 per post on every post, just because the person downvoting me didn't like my brother. I never said a word, just kept posting like normal.
This happens. I get downvotes weekly but don't acknowledge them. It is everyone's right to downvote (or upvote) as they please and there is no obligation to explain it. So, my advice to people if there are to get a downvote is to say nothing, and just go on as usual.
Make sense?
Ya that makes sense. That's a strong mental you have there. I guess if you responded it would've made it worse so he just ended up giving up because of a lack of reaction.
I will keep this advice for the future then if I ever come into that situation. Thank you for answering🙏. Appreciate it.
Good thing finding it bro! Got some good dedication to investigate others.
lol no bro I just wanted to find some posts to comment in weekend experience. I'll usually find like 3-5 posts to comment on a daY minimum
You're not welcome in my community, please cease posting here.
Thanks to you all 🙏, I have admit my mistakes and promised not to repeat that again