UN General Assembly
1993

shall have at our disposal a valuable instrument in our struggle against drug-related crime. Human rights and fundamental freedoms do not come as a generous concession from a State or its authorities. They are inherent to the human person, regardless of political, social, racial, religious or any other factor. Those rights and freedoms are therefore inseparable, and must be recognized and respected. The fact that those rights and freedoms are inherent to the human person affords them a universality and indivisibility that must be strengthened. Violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms do not only attack the person whose rights and fundamental freedoms have been trampled on; they also attack institutional stability, the constitutional order and the rule of law. This is so because the person whose rights and freedoms have been disregarded is inclined towards insurrection or at least towards personal revenge, the private vengeance of the eye-for-an-eye principle. Respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, or violations of them, must therefore be examined not only as a problem that affects individual interests but rather in a