rep wrote:I cannot emphasize more that human right are an issue of democracy. In no other regimes, be them totalitarian, authoritarian, sultanistic, post-totalitarian, are the human rights preserved and protected. Rutania does not want to prove that elections were falsified or manipulated but that democracy is deficient in Hobrazia. And this concerns the activity of the DIC. I might quote academically more sophisticated definitions of democracy to underline that the issue of human right is integral part of the problematic of democracy.
The DIC is not a commission investigating electoral frauds but investigating democracy. Thus, I firmly believe that human right is a matter of concern for our present commission.
We would dispute this assertion with extreme vehemence. Whilst we share our Rutanian colleague's zeal for the propagation of human rights, to confuse them with the issue of democracy would be an error unworthy of this institution. If a nation's democratically elected government cannot withdraw human rights, should that be the will of the people- surely that too is in its way undemocratic. Democracy is essential to preserving human rights; this we do not dispute. However, it is a classic fallacy to conclude from this that human rights must therefore be essential to the preservation of democracy.