Public administration as a guarantee of human rights and freedoms in Ukraine

Abstract

One of the main guarantees of building a sovereign and independent, democratic, social, legal state is to ensure the rights andfreedoms of the people in it.The purpose of the article is to establish the role of public administration in ensuring human rights and freedoms, as well as todetermine the main directions of improving the mechanism of work of public authorities on this issue.The role of public administration in ensuring human rights and freedoms and the problem of the need to reform it in Ukraine arestudied in the article. A comparative analysis of the model of public administration using international experience has been done. Waysto improve the domestic model of public administration in ensuring human rights and freedoms based on the experience of Germanyare proposed.Nowadays, the issue of ensuring human rights and freedoms is relevant not only in Ukraine but also in international practice. Thekey actor in the sphere of public administration is the state, represented by public authorities, which carry out their administrative acti -vities aimed at ensuring human rights and freedoms. Not surprisingly, Article 3 of the Constitution of Ukraine enshrines the provisionthat human rights and freedoms and their guarantees determine the content and direction of the state. However, today public administrationin Ukraine is characterized by inefficiency and frequent violations of the law. The relevance of the topic of this study is due tothe need to improve the model of public administration in Ukraine, as a key activity of public authorities to ensure human rights andfreedoms.Analysis of the functioning of public administration to ensure human rights and freedoms should be carried out with the definitionof “public administration”, due to the fact that in the legal field there is no definition of this concept. In our opinion, the following definitionof public administration should be given – it is a set of organizational and legal components of the management of public autho -rities.So, today there is a question about the effectiveness of such activities in Ukraine. Therefore, public administration bodies, usingthe experience of foreign countries, must reform the modern model of public administration, which will fully ensure human rights andfreedoms and will be their guarantee.