The Right to Privacy in Family Relations

Privacy between couples is one of the rights that some deny it and others protect and advocate. However in human rights instruments, man and woman even in their relations together enjoy the right of privacy that is necessary for their human dignity, but the domain and quality of this right inside the family is different from other social institutions. Governments sometimes breach the privacy of citizens in accordance of their political goals. Some policies such as increasing or decreacing population may be put the privacy right at the risk of breach and in most countries legal systems, lawmaking for protection of privacy in family life is neglected. Some States only criminalize breach of the right and do no more effective actions. Nowadays development of technologies and communicational tools, delimits domain of application of the right and active interference of States to lawmaking and executive actions to ensure human rights in family is more important.