The Right to Be Protected from Fear

Just before the end of the greatest war of all wars and years after that, there were discussions and deliberations, finalized in official political and legal writings ... Pacts, Declarations, Conventions and Founding Charters were created. From the Philadelphia Declaration, the Atlantic Pact, to the Bretton Woods Agreement, Charter of the United Nations, European Convention on Human Rights, European Social Charter and the Treaty Establishing the European Community. Something new and different was conceived - and started. A different, better, more beautiful world was planned and promised: a different World Order, PEACE and the protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms, human dignity of all people. In all of these documents a fundamental human right to be protected from fear was explicitly mentioned. In its connection to basic and general freedom as such (liberty interest)...

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