The Brief History of Fundamental Rights in East Timor

Abstract

Fundamental Rights are inalienable rights inherent to every human being. When men were born, they were born together with certain rights that no one nor the state can violate, such as the right to life, the right to equality, the right to security, the right to health, the right to image, the right to physical integrity, etc. Basically, Fundamental Rights, as the name implies, are always related to the rights that human beings must have to live a dignified life.Therefore, these fundamental rights seek to protect and value the dignity of the human person. What we have seen in the history of humanity, these fundamental rights, even if theoretically born inherent to the human being, but were always violated by the public power, especially by the dictator leaders, and were only valued and respected after a long struggle of the nobles and the peoples against the arbitrariness of these dictators. The state by nature seeks to maintain order and stability for the sake of governance; For governmental stability and often, on the one hand, in the name of the state, leaders can fall into temptation to violate fundamental rights