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• Fundamental - Human rights are fundamental, without them life and human dignity are meaningless.

• Inalienable - no authority can take them away from us, you can’t give them up.

• Imprescriptible - exist independently of authority and cannot be freely regulated by it.

• Indivisible - human rights are indivisible and together they form an integral and interdependent whole.

• Universal - human rights apply worldwide .

• Interdependent - the fulfilment or performance of one of them cannot take place without the
performance of the other.

1.3 Categories of human rights

Human rights are divided into two categories:

• civil and political rights - include freedom from discrimination and the right to privacy, as well as the right
to peaceful assembly, freedom of expression, voting rights and freedom of religion.

• economic, social and cultural rights - are the rights to work, an adequate standard of living, including
food, clothing and housing, the right to physical and social health, everyone has the right to live in a healthy
environment and has the right to equal education.