The extent to which national legislation is compatible with the rules of international human rights law and international humanitarian law (a comparative study)

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Law - Mansoura University

Abstract

Rights and freedoms with political and civil content represent the first generation in this regard, while rights and freedoms with economic and social content represent the second generation of the list of rights and freedoms stipulated in international charters, declarations and covenants on human rights. The expansion of the political role played by the working classes, as well as the spread of socialist doctrines that called for the need to achieve social justice, and therefore the need for the state to play a role to achieve it, hence it was not surprising that subsequent constitutions, especially those that emerged in the aftermath of the First World War, whether in Western or Eastern Europe or other parts of the world. 

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