The Components of the Right to Freedom of Expression in International Human Rights System

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Assistant Professor In Public Law, Payam Noor University, Yaz, Iran

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It can be said that the right to freedom of expression, which is prerequisite to enjoy other human rights, is reflected in the first national and international human rights documents. However, the definition of this right and the emphasis on its different components has changed over the time. But it can be claimed that most of the universal and regional documents on human rights have offered very similar definitions of this right. Acording to these definitions, the right to freedom of expression is the right of "every person" to express their "information" and "ideas" with "any Medium" and even "over the domestic borders".
However, some documents such as "the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam" have not stipulated all of the components of the right to freedom of expression and have not presented a transparent definition. But these documents cannot violate the above definition, because these documents are not binding and signatory States of them have ratified the international instruments on freedom of expression, especially International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
 
 

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Journal of Legal Studies
Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 20
September 2016
Pages 87-114

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