“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 36 (2025), pages 38–48.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2025-36-38-48

Suniehin Serhii
Human rights in the context of global crises: development prospects

Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of general prospects for the development of the human rights institution in conditions of global crises. Human rights in the modern civilized world are not only abstract universal values, the highest social value of the development of democratic, legal and social states, a key element of the stable and progressive functioning of society, but also an integral part of the process of implementing law as a whole. Global crises, which are accompanied by increased economic, political and social problems, usually lead to a temporary weakening of the mechanisms for the implementation and protection of human rights and freedoms. Such a situation requires the development and implementation of new mechanisms to counter the challenges and threats associated with the growing level of discrimination, violence and numerous violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms in these conditions.

The aim of the article. The purpose of this article is to determine the general prospects for the development of the institution of human rights in the context of global crises and to develop basic recommendations for ensuring their effective implementation.

Results. Various issues related to improving the institution of human rights in the context of modern global crises require the use of a considered, balanced approach, which should combine flexible, operational and to a certain extent universal mechanisms for their provision and protection, capable in their entirety to give a quick and qualitative responding to crisis situations in the relevant spheres and industries of public life, ensuring and protecting human rights in extraordinary conditions.
The difficulty of creating such legal mechanisms is associated with a number of reasons, in particular with the existing differences between the global interests of the most developed states, their associations, transnational corporations and the interests of national cultural protectionism, the policy of which some modern states seek to implement, with the need to ensure a constant balance between human rights and security measures that restrict them, with the uneven application of international human rights standards at the national level, which is associated, among other things, with the non-acceptance of a number of modern human rights and freedoms by the socio-cultural traditions of development of many states, with the global crisis of social and individual moral consciousness, etc.
Modern forms of law enforcement and human rights protection activities include appropriate digital platforms and social networks for the dissemination of certain information, consolidation of citizens and pressure on public authorities. In the context of modern crises, such technologies include platforms for monitoring compliance with human rights, collecting signatures, online appeals and petitions, etc. An important component of these innovations is also digital platforms for providing legal consulting, which can provide primary legal assistance to migrants, refugees, victims of hostilities or environmental disasters, and other socially vulnerable segments of the population.

Conclusions. The prospects for development of the human rights institution in the context of global crises are associated both with the implementation of further modernization of international and national human rights protection mechanisms (for example, improving the legal framework, increasing the level of legal awareness of the population, creating effective judicial and other human rights protection institutions, etc.), and with the implementation of a set of measures aimed at the formation and development of the moral consciousness of the individual, in particular a number of his moral qualities that ensure the natural unity of being (for example, conscience, benevolence, honesty, responsibility, loyalty, mercy, courage, moderation, hard work, etc.). It is the high level of public and individual moral consciousness that makes it impossible to formally, unscrupulously apply legal norms, various abuses and manipulations of their content in certain legal relations, and therefore is one of the main prerequisites and at the same time a guarantee of the real effectiveness of relevant law enforcement and human rights protection practices, the primary subject of which is always a person.

Key words: human rights, global crises, mechanisms for ensuring and protecting human rights, state, legal norms, implementation of law.

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