The mechanism for ensuring the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens in the activities of state authorities
Authors: Holodnyk Yu. 
Published: September 2023

In order to study the legal mechanism for ensuring the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens by state authorities, the article analyzes doctrinal opinions, norms of current domestic and international legislation regarding the definition of the mechanism for ensuring the rights and freedoms of citizens by state authorities. The provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine, the norms of which guarantee the protection and protection of human and citizen rights and freedoms, are analyzed.

In the light of the protection and protection of human and citizen rights and freedoms, the guarantee of these rights and freedoms, it is noted that an important role in this matter is played by: the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Human Rights); The President of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, executive and judicial authorities. Attention is drawn to the fact that in the state mechanism for ensuring the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens, law enforcement agencies, lawyers, public associations and organizations play an important role. In case of violation of subjective rights, citizens have the right to choose different legal mechanisms for the protection of violated or disputed rights. The author emphasizes that the effectiveness of the implementation of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the norms of domestic and international legislation is determined by the existing system of the state mechanism in the state. It is emphasized that in order to protect the rights and freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens in Ukraine, there are local and appellate courts, as well as the Supreme Court, which, according to the law, guarantee everyone the protection of their rights, freedoms and interests within a reasonable time by an independent, impartial and fair court formed by by law In addition to the domestic judicial system, citizens of Ukraine can apply to the European Court of Human Rights in order to protect their violated rights.

It was concluded that the effectiveness of the implementation of the rights and freedoms of citizens guaranteed by the norms of domestic and international legislation is determined by the existing system of the state mechanism in the state. With the help of state authorities, a legal mechanism is provided to guarantee the protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens, who, through the implementation of procedural norms, can carry out the judicial or administrative protection of the violated subjective rights of a person guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine and international agreements. By the legal mechanism for ensuring the protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens by state bodies, we mean the system of guarantees defined and guaranteed by the state, with the help of which the protection and protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of citizens is ensured and implemented in specified forms and procedures.