Abstract:

This paper aims at presenting the main categories of human rights and the way in which the students and the master and post graduate students at the University ”1 Decembrie 1918” of Alba Iulia relate to these. The paper consists of two parts: a theoretical part, which deals with the main classifications of human rights: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (positive and negative), the International law (absolute and relative), the European Conventions (in civil and political, respectively economic, social and cultural) and a practical part, which includes the results of a research conducted in 2019 on a group of students and master and post-graduate students at the University ”1 Decembrie 1918” of Alba Iulia, research that highlighted the importance of human rights, their classification, as well as contexts in which these can be restricted /limited.
The purpose of the research was to identify the importance of human rights for the students and the master and post graduate students at the University ”1 Decembrie 1918” of Alba Iulia.

The objectives of the research were to:
- identify the situations in which human rights can be restricted,
- know the categories of human rights,
- classify the human rights according to importance.

The research method, the questionnaire based inquiry, was chosen in accordance with the purpose and the objectives of the research. This questionnaire was applied to the persons from the target group in order to collect the necessary information for the research.
The acquired results present the following aspects: cases of violation of human rights, classification of the main categories of human rights, classification of the human rights depending on importance.

Keywords:

Human rights, categories of rights, restriction of rights, classification of human rights, importance of human rights.