Africa-Press – Angola. The Constitution of the Republic of Angola (CRA) represents the Nuclear Diploma of the rights, freedoms and fundamental guarantees of citizens and takes the first place in the path of protecting individual and collective rights, considered, this Wednesday, in Luanda, the Minister of State for the Social Area, Dalva Ringote.
According to the governor, the CRA allows the full realization of the dignity of the human person and of the Democratic State and the Law, competing, for this purpose, with different actions of the Angolan State, namely of a legal and institutional nature, as well as within the scope of services economic, social and cultural.
“The Constitution defends that the constitutional and legal precepts relating to Fundamental Rights are interpreted and integrated in harmony with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, respecting and applying the principles of the United Nations Charter and the Charter of the African Union”, he highlighted.
When speaking at the opening of the Central Act of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he said that for the internal implementation of the postulates of the aforementioned Declaration, Angola, since the achievement of its independence in 1975, has followed a marked path of important actions in the institutional and legislative domains.
In this particular, he mentioned the creation, in 1992, the advent of multiparty democracy, the figure of the Ombudsman, the implementation of the Reform of Justice and Law, the carrying out of the first Constitutional Review and the approval of the new Penal Code, the Criminal Procedure , Administrative Process and Administrative Litigation.
These diplomas, highlighted the Minister of State for the Social Area, reinforce the guarantees of citizens and public and private legal entities in the exercise of their rights and freedoms and the protection of their interests.
“The promotion of Human Rights in our country has a strategy and respective operational plans that embody a vast set of public actions and initiatives, highlighting the approval of the Support and Protection plans for People with Albinism and the Law on the Statutes of Non-governmental organizations.
Likewise, he cited the Law on the Judgment of Minors, the Inclusion and Support Plan for Persons with Disabilities 2023/2027, as well as the implementation of special programs that aim to protect families, especially those with greater vulnerability, with an emphasis on the Kwenda, an important instrument of social monetary transfers.
“The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, instructed me to say a word of appreciation to everyone present, in honor of the men and women who, in a very specific historical context, after the Second World War, managed to draw up, proclaim and adopt the Declaration Universal Human Rights”, he transmitted.
Co-organized by the Ombudsman’s Office and the Catholic University of Angola, the central event of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Angola was celebrated just (Wednesday), under the theme “Dignity, Freedom and Justice for all”. In the world, the anniversary is marked on December 10th.
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