Features of application of international standards to ensure human rights and freedoms in the activities of the Security service of Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the main peculiarities of the using of international human rights and freedoms standards in the activities of the Security Service of Ukraine. At the beginning of the study, defined the term of protection of human rights and freedoms, consolidation of relevant rights and freedoms in the at the Constitution of Ukraine. The remainder of this article was given the term «sinternational human rights standards», highlights the main international legal acts that establish universal standards for the protection of human rights and freedoms, where its declaring as the highest value of society and forming a global understanding of these categories. Analyzed the legal position of the Security Service of Ukraine as one of the state authorities in Ukraine, which carries out law enforcement activities. The standards for ensuring human rights and freedoms under martial law, were analyzed too. The Constitution of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine «On the Security Service of Ukraine», have been researched as legal acts that determine the peculiarities of the Security Service of Ukraine. The norms of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and the Geneva Conventions, which determine the features of the protection of human rights and freedoms both in peacetime and during armed conflicts, were analyzed. The importance of effective domestic implementation of the norms of international law in the field of protection of human rights and freedoms was emphasized. In accordance with international legal acts, standards for the protection of human rights and freedoms were defined. Peculiarities of the implementation of human rights and freedoms during armed conflicts based on the practice of the European Court of Human Rights were studied. It was indicated which tools are used to implement the norms of international law on the territory of Ukraine.