Andrii Krupnyk, Chairman of Association For Community Self-organization Assistance
According to the Constitution (Art. 1), Ukraine is a democratic, social, law-based state. This officially proclaimed status has to be ensured with the appropriate eligible organizational and legal mechanisms, institutions and relationships.
Historically the rule of law is much broader than the idea of the supremacy of law. Unlike the law, it does not depend on the will of the legislator and goes beyond formal legitimacy, but justice based on the recognition and full acceptance of the highest values of the human individual.
The concept of human rights describes the legal status of the human to the state, its opportunities in economic, social, political and cultural spheres. Human rights are inalienable and has natural character. Free and effective implementation of human rights is one of the main characteristics of civil society and state of law.
According to the annual Rule of Law Index, in 2015 Ukraine found itself on the 70th place among 102 countries, ahead of Russia, which took 75th place.
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