Danubius International Conferences, 2nd International Conference The Danube - Axis of European Identity
Human Rights and the Social Protection of Vulnerable Persons
Last modified: 2012-06-22
Abstract
In the texts with binding juridical force, drafted and published by the Council of the European Union, we find no provisions regarding the juridical protection of the vulnerable persons (disabled persons, old people and mentally retarded), only planned measures regarding their social protection, that the E.U. States granted in the Social Charter (of 1961 and in the revised one of 1996), and, finally, in the aditional Protocol from the year 1988. Given that to know these measures – that also remain compulsory for the signatory States or for the ones that ratified this Charter – is not possible without getting acquainted, at least in brief, with the human Rights provided by the E.U. legislation, within the pages of this study we referred explicitly to the text of the latter in order to evince the imperious necessity to draft a special legislation also regarding the juridical protection of vulnerable persons, not only a protection of a preeminently social nature.
