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Human Dignity in Albania

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This chapter deals with the concept of human dignity and its reference in the Albanian legal order and courts’ case law. It shows that human dignity is considered one of the key legal concepts both at the constitutional and statutory level. The author tries to answer some of the questions: Is human dignity a constitutional value/principle or an individual right? Could it be limited or does it have an absolute protection? In particular, the relevant case law of the Albanian Constitutional Court on human dignity will be examined more closely. At the statutory level, human dignity is protected by a number of statutes, but unfortunately there is a modest legal reasoning on human dignity, which seems to be still an undiscovered path by the judges.

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  1. 1.

    Article 122/3 of the Albanian Constitution.

  2. 2.

    See Decision No.6/2006 of the Constitutional Court.

  3. 3.

    Article 145/2 states: ‘When judges find that a law comes into conflict with the Constitution, they do not apply it. In this case, they suspend the proceedings and send the case to the Constitutional Court’.

  4. 4.

    Article 122/1 provides, indeed, that any international agreement, duly ratified, ‘…is implemented directly, except for cases when it is not self-executing…’.

  5. 5.

    Decision No.20/2011 of the Constitutional Court.

  6. 6.

    See Decision No.29/2005 of the Constitutional Court.

  7. 7.

    Decision No. 29/2009 of the Constitutional Court.

  8. 8.

    See ‘Constitutional Debate on the new Albanian Constitution’ 2005, pp. 16, 48.

  9. 9.

    Article 27 of the Constitution ‘1. No one shall be deprived of his liberty except in cases and under the procedures provided for by law. (…) (d) when a person is a spreader of a contagious disease, mentally ill and dangerous to society’.

  10. 10.

    Article 55 ‘Everyone has the right to health insurance pursuant to the procedure provided by law’.

  11. 11.

    Article 15 of the Law on Reproductive Health.

  12. 12.

    Article 89 of Criminal Code: ‘The trade of human organs, as well as every action that relates to illegal removal or implantation of the organs is sentenced with imprisonment from three up to ten years’.

  13. 13.

    Article 94 of Code of Ethics and Medical Deontology.

  14. 14.

    Article 93 of Criminal Code.

  15. 15.

    Law on Blood Transfusion; Law ‘On Organ Transplantation’; Law ‘On the Transplantation of Tissues, Cells and Bodies’; Law ‘On the Protection of Personal Data’; and the Law ‘On Termination of Pregnancy’.

  16. 16.

    Article 32 of Labour Code.

  17. 17.

    See case Dybeku v. Albania, 18 September 2007.

  18. 18.

    The relevant extracts from the Committee of Ministers’ Recommendation No. R (87) 3 on the European Prison Rules, as revised and updated by Recommendation Rec (2006)2.

  19. 19.

    See Decision No.20/2011 of the Court.

  20. 20.

    Article 21 states: ‘The right to life is protected by law’.

  21. 21.

    Decision No.65/1999 of the Constitutional Court.

  22. 22.

    Decision No.9/2007 of the Constitutional Court.

  23. 23.

    Decision No.3/2004 of the Constitutional Court.

  24. 24.

    Article 49 of the Constitution ‘Everyone has the right to earn the means of living by lawful work chosen or accepted by himself. He is free to choose his profession, place of work, as well as his own system of professional qualification’.

  25. 25.

    Decision No. 9/2010 of the Constitutional Court.

  26. 26.

    Decision No.16/2004 of the Constitutional Court.

  27. 27.

    See Decision No.44/2011 of the Constitutional Court.

  28. 28.

    See Decision no.3/2004 of the Court regarding prohibition of torture between individuals.

  29. 29.

    See Case No.12/2007 of the Supreme Court.

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  1. Public Law Department, University of Tirana, Constitutional Court of Albania, Tirana, Albania

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Vorpsi, A. (2018). Human Dignity in Albania. In: Becchi, P., Mathis, K. (eds) Handbook of Human Dignity in Europe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27830-8_1-1

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