PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
May 21, 1999
50. Anniversary of Basic Rights:
PRO ASYL reminds of the „Inviolability of the Dignity of every Human Being“
Increase and expansion of state power
restricts more and more Basic Rights
- 50 Jahre Grundrechte:
PRO ASYL erinnert an die „Unantastbarkeit der Würde jedes Menschen“
Zuwachs und Ausbau staatlicher Gewalt schränkt Grundrechte immer mehr ein - 50. Anniversary of Basic Rights:
PRO ASYL reminds of the „Inviolability of the Dignity of every Human Being“
Increase and expansion of state power restricts more and more Basic Rights
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On the occasion of the 50th’s Anniversary of the proclamation of the Constitution on May 23, 1999 warns the Nation-wide Human Rights Association for Refugees PRO ASYL urgently against the danger of continous increase of State power and control at expense of individual basic and civil rights.
The spokesperson of PRO ASYL, Heiko Kauffmann, called upon politics and civil society, to become more watchful on these dangers: „The civil society, the non governmental and human rights organisations, churches, trade unions and the total social movement are demanded here, to prevent the always growing distance between reason of state and human rights, the gap between law and humanity and to harmonise standards and reality of the Constitution!“
In view of growing possibilities of interference and monitoring by reducing democratic rights and protection of the individual and the supply of governmental auhorities with considerably unrestricted control and executive power would increase the danger of „an affluent fortress with coordinated security and military measures closing its borders and monitoring them by technically more and more polished means“.
„However, people don’t live for the sake of the state but the state exists for the people’s sake!“, explained Kauffmann. This is the incontrovertible apprenticeship from the German past, finding constitutionally its crucial expression in the term „inviolability of the dignity of the human being“
PRO ASYL reminds of the will of the parents of the Constitution, to set new standards of international humanity from the apprenticeships of the German past. This has led to anchor the basic right of asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany.
By the far-reaching amendments and the erosion of Art. 16 of the Constitution and the treatment beneath human dignity of refugees by the Act on Benefits for Asylum seekers many people seeking protection couldn’t regain in Germany their lost safety and destroyed dignity.
