Abstract:

The present paper presents the extent to which human rights are known by the students, the master and post-graduate students included in the post-graduate programs at the University ”1 Decembrie 1918” of Alba Iulia. The paper is structured in two parts: a theoretical one that presents the history of human rights and a practical one that represents a research on the extent to which the human rights are known by students, master and post-graduate students.

The theoretical part of the paper puts forward a series of historical moments in the process of foundation of the idea of human rights: the philosophy of J. Locke, the ideas of French and American revolutionaries, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the reflection of the main human rights in the Romanian Constitution.

The practical part introduces the results of a research conducted in 2019 on a group of students and master and post-graduate students of the University ”1 Decembrie 1918” of Alba Iulia, research that identified the level of knowledge regarding the human rights of the above-mentioned group.

Keywords:

Human rights, students, master students, knowledge, identification.