The relationship between corruption manifestations and human rights violations: the Ukrainian context

It is indicated that in the modern Ukrainian state, corruption has become a systemic problem that has gone beyond local manifestations and has become a real threat to national security and the constitutional order of the country. Corruption schemes cover not only the economic and political spheres, but also have a direct destructive impact on ensuring the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens. Despite the presence of extensive national legislation in the field of human rights and a significant number of ratified international legal documents, Ukraine demonstrates critically low efficiency of the functioning of human rights protection institutions in the context of combating corruption. It is noted that the results of monitoring studies record an insufficient level of legal culture of society, passivity of citizens in protecting their own rights and a significant imbalance between legislative norms and the real practice of state guaranteeing human rights. The article is devoted to a comprehensive study of the relationship between corruption manifestations and human rights violations in modern Ukraine. The author analyzes corruption not only as an economic or political problem, but as a systemic factor that undermines fundamental human rights and freedoms and poses a threat to national security and the constitutional principles of the state. The study reveals the mechanism of self-reproduction of corruption, in which one corrupt act generates others, forming a systemic degradation of social values. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of such destructive forms of corruption as nepotism, favoritism and protectionism, which not only directly violate the rights of individuals, but also create conditions for the emergence of pseudo-specialists. The study demonstrates the existence of an obvious cause-and-effect relationship between corruption and human rights violations, where corruption schemes most affect socially vulnerable groups of the population – low-income citizens, pensioners, people with disabilities, migrants. Despite the developed national legislative framework on human rights and a large number of ratified international legal acts, Ukraine has a critically low level of legal culture of the population and the effectiveness of human rights protection mechanisms. The author justifies the need for a comprehensive approach to combating corruption, which includes not only legal mechanisms, but also the development of civil society, ensuring freedom of speech, increasing the transparency of government and the formation of effective mechanisms of public control. The study proves that overcoming corruption in Ukraine is impossible without simultaneously strengthening the system of human rights protection, increasing the legal culture of citizens and taking into account the cultural, mental and historical characteristics of Ukrainian society.