Legal mechanism for ensuring human rights in Ukraine: concept, elements, status, and areas for improvement

The article presents a general theoretical description of the legal mechanism for ensuring human rights in Ukraine, as well as proposals for its improvement. It is stated that rights are the most important value given to humans by God. Enshrining human rights in legal sources is an important but insufficient step in ensuring them. Human rights also require organizational, procedural, and educational guarantees. Legal protection of rights is the primary duty of every state. However, only the joint efforts of individuals, the state, and other actors in society will allow for the most effective results in the realization, protection, and defense of human rights. It is emphasized that the legal mechanism for ensuring human rights is a structural element of the social mechanism. The structure of the social mechanism for ensuring human rights includes: religious, moral (ethical), and legal norms; international legal principles and norms; activities of various entities to ensure human rights, etc. The social mechanism for ensuring human rights includes the following mechanisms: 1) the international mechanism for ensuring human rights; 2) the legal mechanism for ensuring human rights (domestic); 3) the mechanism for ensuring human rights through other social means (moral, religious, etc.). The concept of the legal mechanism for ensuring human rights is formulated as a system of effective legal guarantees for the implementation, protection, and defense of human rights enshrined in normative legal acts and other sources of state law, as well as the means by which human legal consciousness is formed. The elements of the legal mechanism for ensuring human rights are highlighted. The report highlights massive human rights violations committed by the Russian Federation as a result of its full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. The Russian Federation has caused significant violations of both natural human rights and subjective legal rights enshrined in Ukrainian legislation and is committing genocide against the Ukrainian people. The main directions for improving the mechanism for legal protection of human rights in Ukraine were proposed. Among them, one of the most important is to stop the full-scale military invasion of the Russian Federation into the territory of Ukraine and bring those responsible to justice.