Prawa człowieka wykorzystane przeciw człowiekowi

Jakob Cornides

Abstract

Polish translation of: Human Rights Pitted Against Man

Translator: Maciej Brachowicz

On the basis of two examples (Opinion 4.2005 of the EU Network of Experts on Fundamental Rights and the ECHR Decision in the case of Tysiac v. Poland), this article expresses the author's concern over the increasing estrangement between a new voluntaristic doctrine of human rights and the most basic precepts of ethical reason. This novel doctrine is not based on the concept of an objective and inalienable natural law, but on the radical ideology of certain NGOs and international bureaucracies, which pretend having authority to 'make' new human rights, thereby assuming the role of supreme global law-makers. This power shift to the unelected, if not halted, could seriously damage or even destroy the credibility the concept of human rights is enjoying worldwide.