Актуальные проблемы становления науки прав человека

Abstract

In 1978 under the auspices of the UNESCO in Paris there was published "International Human Rights Dimensions". The most important idea is expressed in its foreword: "A contemporary human rights phenomenon urgently requires a true human rights science to be developed, its objectivity and austerity being a human rights independence guarantee as related to any school of thinking and any interpretation of reality". Since then under the UN patronage there has been achieved a significant advance in human rights education. The social sciences and the humanities have contributed greatly to the development in this sphere. Belarusian social and humanitarian sciences have not lagged behind either. This fact speaks for the beginning of the process of the active understanding of the problem, its conceptual apparatus being developed, scientific and pedagogical knowledge being accumulated. It also means that it is high time to determine THE PROPERTY OF THE VERY PROCESS. After analysing a number of Belarusian studies, the article defines their major drawbacks as certain theoretical insufficiency and lack of investigation culture. Besides, it is indicated in the article that the human rights science advance is impeded by a number of general problems of science and education management and information resources. What is the contemporary answer to the question of the human rights science formation as an independent science? It would be correct to say that human rights is a branch of knowledge which is developing in a fast yet still chaotic way and will give birth to a human rights science. All signs of a mature science are present today in our human rights knowledge in a form of separate and logically disconnected elements. But for the knowledge to become a science, these separate elements are to be ordered in a strict, logically correct and adequate system, which demands further conceptual development of the human knowledge field.