Human rights instruments

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.

On 18 December 1990, the General Assembly adopted a resolution on the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.

Romania's ratifying the Protocol no.

Alic says that he still remembers everything about his ordeal, and is still woken from sleep by nightmares, 27 years afterwards. What also angers him is that the state does not seem to care about him and the other detainees and torture victims of the 1992-95 war.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva opened the first meeting of the National Committee on International Humanitarian Law, established earlier this year, the press center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.

Romania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) has welcomed the passage in The Hague of the decision of the Decision Addressing the Threat from Chemical Weapons Use by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Conference of States Parties.

"The US has always been at the forefront of the protection of human rights around the world and has for many years been a strong partner for the European Union in the Human Rights Council," a statement posted on the EU External Action said on Wednesday, added:

The UN chief made the appeal in a speech to the General Assembly in New York  on Tuesday, ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

On December 10, the World Human Rights Day is celebrated, Nova TV reports. The Charter of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, is considered an informal constitution guaranteeing human rights. It recognizes human rights and freedoms as given at birth, ensures equality and guarantees protection from violence, ill-treatment and penalties that affect human dignity.

The Bulgarian government has approved draft amendments introducing a status of statelessness in the legislation.

Procedures regulating the legal status and the issuance of travel documents to stateless people who have been granted such status either by Bulgaria or another state have been clarified, with the government submitting the draft to Parliament for consideration.