Human rights and health: seventy years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Human rights and health: seventy years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This note shows the discussion on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights since its adoption in 1948, questioning its effectiveness in the struggle for rights and acknowledging its failures on the equality between the individuals. In this way, the deletions hidden behind a so-called “universality”...

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Main Authors: Maria Helena Barros de Oliveira, Marcos Besserman Vianna, Nair Telles, Felipe Rangel de Souza Machado, Aldo Pacheco Ferreira, Fernando Salgueiro Passos Telles, Lucia Regina Florentino Souto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (Icict) da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) 2018-12-01
Series:RECIIS
Subjects:
Direitos humanos
Dignidade
Justiça
Universalidade
Violências.
Online Access:https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/1667
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Summary:This note shows the discussion on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights since its adoption in 1948, questioning its effectiveness in the struggle for rights and acknowledging its failures on the equality between the individuals. In this way, the deletions hidden behind a so-called “universality” are highlighted, claiming first, the need of debating for dignity – a concept that becomes inseparable from what is in fact understood by Rights.
ISSN:1981-6278

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