I am visiting because Hungary is a dynamic member of the United Nations. It serves on the Human Rights Council and on the board of our newest agency, UN Women.

UNITED NATIONS MEMBER STATES

Hungary contributes to UN peace operations meaningfully, and currently has troops and policemen in Lebanon, Western Sahara, Cyprus and Kosovo. Hungary remains active in the field of arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation.

Hungary, constitutionally speaking, has plenty of protections for Human rights, in accordance not only with ECHR but also to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2000) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), indeed it has more than twenty articles as a guard dog to the human rights …

Universality and inalienability Human rights are universal and inalienable. All people everywhere in the world are entitled to them. No one can voluntarily give them up.

Human rights are universal, inherent to every individual without discrimination; inalienable, meaning that no one can take them away; indivisible and interrelated, with all rights having equal status and being necessary to protect human dignity.

Some ask whether human rights are truly universal. The implication is that the rights contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) may not apply to some countries and societies. The 1993 World Conference on Human Rights affirmed that all human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent.

Certain rights—namely, in the category of human rights—are inviolable. This means they may not be derogated at any time or infringed on in any way and must be fully respected and defended. Any national law or other legal document that limits or suspends such rights would be invalid.

Universality is at the core of the global human rights regime. Human rights are indeed ‘universal’ in some standard and important senses of that term – but not ‘universal’ in some equally standard senses. Likewise, human rights both are and are not ‘relative’ in standard senses of that term.

Without development, human rights could not be truly universal, since universality must be predicated upon the most underprivileged in developing countries achieving empowerment. But the standards being proclaimed internationally can become reality only when applied by countries within their own legal systems.

Human rights are universal and inalienable; indivisible; interdependent and interrelated. They are universal because everyone is born with and possesses the same rights, regardless of where they live, their gender or race, or their religious, cultural or ethnic background.