The protection of personal integrity
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.100.2017.20700Keywords:
Right to integrity, Human Rights, Fundamental Rights, Spanish Constitution, Council of Europe, Charter of Fundamental Rights EUAbstract
AbstractThe article tries to analyze the evolution of the protection of integrity in Spain since the Constitution came into force in 1978. First of all, it is addressed the context in which the Constitution was approved as well as the options opened to Constituent Power. It is underlined that, for the first time in Spain, a specific right to integrity is declared, something unusual at that time, together with the traditional prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, already introduced in the Constitution of 1812.
It was necessary to analyze how the protection of integrity in International Law on Human Rights, as well as the right to the integrity of the person, proclaimed specifically in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In this sense, it is remarkable how the European Court of Human Rights has inferred a right to the integrity from the right to respect for private and family life, by interpreting evolutionarily the Convention.
However, it is not easy to determine neither the object of the right to integrity nor what are the fundamental positions, the life situations, whose violation should permit person to claim in Courts of Justice, by activating their protective function. For the rest, it has also been crucial the intense legislative development that has implemented, in various sectors of the legal system,
measures of protection in favor of the most vulnerable people.
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2017-12-20
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Canosa Usera, R. (2017). The protection of personal integrity. Revista de Derecho Político, 1(100), 257–310. https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.100.2017.20700
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MONOGRÁFICO XL ANIVERSARIO CONSTITUCIÓN. TÍTULO I. CAPÍTULO II.
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