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- Title: Human Rights Principles should Underpin European Democracies (Human Rights & Legal Affairs)
- Author : Crossroads Foreign Policy Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 76 KB
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The essence of democracy is about 'rule by the people', about who participates in the decision-making process and how. This is not only a question of certain institutions or procedures, there are key principles involved. I believe it is important to understand these principles in order to avoid that the term 'democracy' is diluted of its true meaning and turned into an empty slogan. In a democratic society decisions must be under the control of all its members and all of them should be considered as equal. Popular control and political equality are the two principles which build democracy. This makes human rights principles--with their emphasis on governmental accountability and the rights of the individual--particularly relevant in the work for democratisation. Popular control would in the human rights language relate to the right to participation and the right to monitor those in power. Political equality relates to the principle of non-discrimination and effective equality to exercise one's rights.
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