Smetana V. Constitutional and legal provision of human rights activities in the field of local self-government: domestic and world experience.

Thesis discloses problems of legal regulation of the place, the role, the function and powers of local self-government in the sphere of ensuring rights and freedoms to a person and a citizen. It raises the questions of legal status of a person and a citizen as a member of territorial community; it proves the necessity to apply two-level system of primary subjects of local self-government: territorial community as a social and territorial group and a personality as the subject of individual rights. Major trends of the activities of local authorities related to ensuring civil, social and economic, cultural and political rights to a person and a citizen have been analyzed. Organizational and legal forms and methods of activities of representative and executive local authorities in the process of ensuring rights and freedoms to a person and a citizen have been researched. he scientific-methodological approaches to the concept of human rights protection in the field of local self-government are comprehensively described. Doctrinal approaches to the understanding of municipal human rights as an object of human rights protection are considered. The principles and international standards of human rights protection in the field of local self-government are researched. The main subjects of realization of human rights activities at the municipal level are determined and functions and powers of public bodies of local authorities in the field of protection of human and citizen's rights and freedoms are clarified. The international experience of the organization and human rights activities of municipal ombudsmen has been analyzed. The human rights resource of non-public (public) institutions of local self-government is revealed. The problematic issues of legislative regulation of human rights activities in the sphere of local self-government in Ukraine are considered. The prospects for further deployment of human rights activities in the field of local self-government Author's, and practical recommendations for the enhancement of human rights activities in the field of local self-government and improvement of the effectiveness of the protection of human rights of members of territorial communities are developed.