Editing Autonomy (section)

==International human rights law==
After the Second World War, there was a push for international human rights that came in many waves. Autonomy as a basic human right started the building block in the beginning of these layers alongside [[liberty]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Personal freedom through human rights law? : autonomy, identity and integrity under the European Convention on Human Rights|last=Marshall|first=Jill|date=2009|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff Publishers|isbn=978-9004170599|location=Leiden|oclc=567444414}}</ref> The Universal declarations of Human rights of 1948 has made mention of autonomy or the legal protected right to individual self-determination in article 22.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/|title=Universal Declaration of Human Rights|date=2015-10-06|website=www.un.org|access-date=2018-03-15|archive-date=2018-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224223959/https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Documents such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples reconfirm international law in the aspect of human rights because those laws were already there, but it is also responsible for making sure that the laws highlighted when it comes to autonomy, cultural and integrity; and land rights are made within an indigenous context by taking special attention to their historical and contemporary events<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Geoff|first=G.|date=1997-02-01|title=Religious Minorities and Their Rights: A Problem of Approach |journal=International Journal on Minority and Group Rights |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=97–134 |doi=10.1163/15718119720907435 |issn=1571-8115}}</ref>

The [[Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples|United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples]] article 3 also through international law provides Human rights for Indigenous individuals by giving them a right to self-determination, meaning they have all the liberties to choose their political status, and are capable to go and improve their economic, social, and cultural statuses in society, by developing it. Another example of this, is article 4 of the same document which gives them autonomous rights when it comes to their internal or local affairs and how they can fund themselves in order to be able to self govern themselves.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://undocs.org/A/RES/61/295|title=A/RES/61/295 – E|website=undocs.org|access-date=2018-03-15|archive-date=2019-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514221832/https://undocs.org/A/RES/61/295|url-status=live}}</ref>

Minorities in countries are also protected as well by international law; the 27th article of the [[International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights|United Nations International covenant on Civil and Political rights]] or the ICCPR does so by allowing these individuals to be able to enjoy their own culture or use their language. Minorities in that manner are people from ethnic religious or linguistic groups according to the document.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx|title=OHCHR {{!}} International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights|website=www.ohchr.org|access-date=2018-03-15|archive-date=2020-05-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512032053/https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CCPR.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[European Court of Human Rights|European Court of Human rights]], is an international court that has been created on behalf of the European Conventions of Human rights. However, when it comes to autonomy they did not explicitly state it when it comes to the rights that individuals have. The current article 8 has remedied to that when the case of ''[[Pretty v United Kingdom|Pretty v the United Kingdom]]'', a case in 2002 involving [[assisted suicide]], where autonomy was used as a legal right in law. It was where Autonomy was distinguished and its reach into law was marked as well making it the foundations for legal precedent in making case law originating from the European Court of Human rights.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Caring autonomy : European human rights law and the challenge of individualism|last=Lõhmus |first=Katri |isbn=978-1107081772 |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom|publisher=Cambridge University Press|oclc=898273667|date = 2015}}{{page?|date=February 2024}}</ref>

[[The Yogyakarta Principles]], a document with no binding effect in [[international human rights law]], contend that "self-determination" used as meaning of autonomy on one's own matters including informed consent or sexual and [[reproductive rights]], is integral for one's self-defined or [[gender identity]] and refused any medical procedures as a requirement for legal recognition of the gender identity of transgender.<ref>The Yogyakarta Principles, Principle 3, The Right to Recognition before the Law</ref> If eventually accepted by the international community in a [[treaty]], this would make these ideas human rights in the law. The [[Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities]] also defines autonomy as principles of rights of a person with disability including "the freedom to make one's own choices, and independence of persons".<ref>[[Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities]] Article 3, (a)</ref>