ZAŠTITA LjUDSKIH I MANjINSKIH PRAVA I SLOBODA SA POSEBNIM OSVRTOM NA SLOBODU VEROISPOVESTI I VERSKU DISKRIMINACIJU KAO NjENU SUPROTNOST

Abstract

Human and minority rights and freedoms represent a specific type of natural rights that belong to every individual who has seen the "light of day" and that is due to the very fact of his birth. It is necessary to point out that, throughout the centuries, there have been struggles to lose the class character of human rights and to achieve their universal character. Among all these rights, freedom of religion stood out for its special importance, which implies that every individual can freely profess the religion to which he belongs and, conversely, the right of an individual not to be a member of any religious community. On that way, as one of the problems, religious discrimination appears, which directly denies the freedom of the individual to determine his religion. Essentially, the main goal of this scientific article is to determine the importance of human and minority rights and freedoms in the constitutional-legal order of each country, as well as the place of freedom of religion as a human right in that system. In addition, the problem of religious discrimination will be pointed out, as well as the ways in which we can fight it.