The Role of the Right to Non-Discrimination While Facing Colonial Logic
The concept of human being that takes as starting point the conception of the subject arisen from the modern imagination has proven itself exclusionary. The colonial reasoning results in a vulnerabilization process of subjects based on specific characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity and sex...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-graduação em Direito (CONPEDI)
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Revista de Direitos Humanos e Efetividade |
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| Online Access: | http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistadhe/article/view/1081 |
| Summary: | The concept of human being that takes as starting point the conception of the subject arisen from the modern imagination has proven itself exclusionary. The colonial reasoning results in a vulnerabilization process of subjects based on specific characteristics such as race, gender, ethnicity and sexuality. The International Human Rights Law responds to the demand of subalternized subjects through the no subordination face of the right to non-discrimination, reproving treatments that create or perpetuate situations of oppression, and materializing strategies to face the individualist conception of the right to equality. |
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| ISSN: | 2526-0022 2526-0022 |