Human Rights and Right of Privacy
HUMAN RIGHTS AND RIGHT OF PRIVACY
Prasanta Kumar Dey
“Civilization is the progress towards a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public ruled by law of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men” - Ayn Rand : The Fountain head, 1943.
The idea of privacy is as old as Bibalical notion of creation of progenies on earth. Even Adam and Eve tried to hide their nudity with leaves. Privacy is vital to the mental spiritual and physical well being of all individuals and also to the morality and personality of individual . It is necessary for a secure relationship between individual and individual whether it is between man and wife, son and father or a friend and friend. In other words it concretizes interpersonal relationships of love, friendship and trust .
Human Rights are such rights which are available to every person because he is a human being. Whatever may be his nationality, sex, race, profession, social and economic status. The term ‘Human Rights’ denotes all those rights which are inherent in our nature and without which we can not live as human being . It is claimed that human rights being eternal part of the nature of human rights are essential for individuals to develop their personality, their human qualities, their intelligence, talent and conscience and to enable them to satisfy their spiritual and higher needs. As such they are called natural rights or basic rights and cover variety of rights including traditional civil and political rights on one hand and newly developed economic, social and cultural rights on the other. As they are shared by all men and women in the world, they are so called common rights. They are wider in approach than fundamental rights. The right to privacy has been recognized under Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 provides;
1. No one shall be substituted
Prasanta Kumar Dey
“Civilization is the progress towards a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public ruled by law of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men” - Ayn Rand : The Fountain head, 1943.
The idea of privacy is as old as Bibalical notion of creation of progenies on earth. Even Adam and Eve tried to hide their nudity with leaves. Privacy is vital to the mental spiritual and physical well being of all individuals and also to the morality and personality of individual . It is necessary for a secure relationship between individual and individual whether it is between man and wife, son and father or a friend and friend. In other words it concretizes interpersonal relationships of love, friendship and trust .
Human Rights are such rights which are available to every person because he is a human being. Whatever may be his nationality, sex, race, profession, social and economic status. The term ‘Human Rights’ denotes all those rights which are inherent in our nature and without which we can not live as human being . It is claimed that human rights being eternal part of the nature of human rights are essential for individuals to develop their personality, their human qualities, their intelligence, talent and conscience and to enable them to satisfy their spiritual and higher needs. As such they are called natural rights or basic rights and cover variety of rights including traditional civil and political rights on one hand and newly developed economic, social and cultural rights on the other. As they are shared by all men and women in the world, they are so called common rights. They are wider in approach than fundamental rights. The right to privacy has been recognized under Article 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 provides;
1. No one shall be substituted