Almanac of law. Issue 16 (2025), pages 180–186.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2025-16-180-186

Vasetsky V. Іu.
Features of the human rights and freedoms implementation as additional security guarantees in the wartime and the post-war period

Currently, the war of Ukraine with the occupier, the opposition of the entire civilized world to the advance of totalitarianism, necessitate the development of new directions in the legal sphere, which would guarantee in the future a decent life for a person, his security, the protection of his rights and freedoms, and the continuity of economic development. The study of the complex problem of the state and its citizens security, the implementation of human rights and the guarantee of security sets the task of their consideration, based on the idea of the concept of “legal implementation” in a broad sense as a system of principles and norms, value factors, and mental aspects of the development of society.

The purpose of the work is to analyze issues of legal implementation in the context of the mutual influence at the current historical stage of two dependent factors — security and ensuring human rights and freedoms — from the position of their renewed interaction in the legal field, which will most likely turn out to be not only interdependent, but also reinforcing each other, having a synergistic function.

 It is noted that in totalitarian states, the abuse of the principles of positive law led to the neglect of the doctrine of natural rights, to a break with moral, personal, and social values. With the emergence of the European Court of Human Rights, which operates on the basis of case law in accordance with the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, the attitude to issues of legal implementation regarding the protection of human rights has significantly changed. A feature of law enforcement in relations concerning the legal responsibility of the state to a person in the field of human rights observance is that the state is the responsible party.

 It turned out that the complex of legal restrictions related to the obligation of states to ensure human rights and freedoms did not provide sufficient leverage to counteract the aggressive actions of authoritarian states. Recent events have revealed the relevance of taking into account the relationship between state security and the provision of human rights. In wartime, state security factors come to the fore. But in the post-war period, the issue of ensuring all the principles, norms, and value factors enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine under peacetime conditions will be no less important.

After the victory, Ukraine, as well as the entire civilized world community, will face the question of such a legal restructuring that will make the aggressive actions of certain states impossible. From this it is concluded that there is a significant probability of shifting the role of civil society towards greater responsibility for the state’s security, strengthening the interaction of civil society and each individual with state institutions, mutually reinforcing them in terms of security. At the same time, an effective means of counteracting the potential transition to a more rigid direction of state management and a decrease in the importance of human rights and freedoms is following the principle of the rule of law, a trend of increasing attention to which has been observed recently.

Key words: legal implementation, ensuring human rights and freedoms, state security, the principle of the rule of law.

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