Fundamental rights in India

Albania needs to continue its efforts to further strengthen the protection of fundamental rights, media freedom and freedom of expression, and rights of persons belonging to minorities, the EU General Affairs Council on Enlargement said in its conclusions published on Tuesday.

Ljubljana – The National Assembly passed on Wednesday amendments to the communicable diseases act after the Constitutional Court declared parts of the act and by extension the measures introduced during the epidemic unconstitutional.

Ljubljana – The Constitutional Court has stayed the implementation of a government decree that temporarily bans public gatherings and events, arguing in a decision published on Thursday that a new decree should be adopted with due consideration of the right to gatherings being a fundamental human right.

President Klaus Iohannis stressed on Thursday that International Human Rights Day has not only an anniversary significance, but is an opportunity to reflect on the role that every citizen can play in respecting and protecting the rights of others.

The Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) established on Wednesday that the provisions of article 4 of the Government Emergency Ordinance are constitutional "to the extent to which the actions and measures ordered during the state of alert are not aimed at restricting the exercise of some rights".

The draft law which is to be approved in Monday's Government meeting includes a series of measures which can be taken during the state of alert regarding the unfolding of some economic-social activities within the public institutions, so that the health and life be protected in a "coordinated and coherent" manner," Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu said on Monday in the beginning of the Gov't me

The President of the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR), Valer Dorneanu, told Thursday evening private television broadcaster Antena3, that the fundamental human rights cannot be affected by an emergency ordinance, and that the measures on the restriction of fundamental rights and freedoms to be valid, a law should have been drafted.

Chairman of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, said on Monday that the authorities have taken efficient action in the Ditrau (Harghita County) case and that compliance with the law and the fundamental rights and freedoms of the citizens are being pursued in this situation.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, who says he wants the new constitution to "brew a little," recently met his party's constitution writing commission and asked it to produce a text that would not allow any "tutelage" and would contain all kinds of freedoms. Rights and freedoms will therefore apparently take their place in the new constitution "in line with contemporary democracies."