Political asylum

Originally meaning a space that is by definition safe and inviolable, the term currently designates a form of protection that an individual can request from a State while in its territory, when said individual is deprived of fundamental rights and democratic freedoms in his or her country of origin. Therefore, it generally concerns individuals who are forced to relocation. Right of asylum is recognized primarily by Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of December 1948, as well as by several documents of the European Union and by Article 10 of the Italian Constitution, yet it is not enforced by actual law.