When Human Claims Become Rights. The Case of the Right to Truth over “Desaparecidos”

This article deals with the birth of the Right to Truth for the families of missing persons. It refers to socio-legal theories about the origins of human rights that deconstruct their moral and philosophical dimension, and place them in the social milieu in which they arise and develop. This theoret...

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Main Author:	Arianna Jacqmin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2017-12-01
Series:	Oñati Socio-Legal Series
Subjects:	truth desaparecidos human rights transitional justice legal rethoric
Online Access:	http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/866

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spelling	doaj-f91e2671a3084e049b1e1938f854fd202020-11-25T00:48:23ZengOñati International Institute for the Sociology of LawOñati Socio-Legal Series2079-59712017-12-017612471272700When Human Claims Become Rights. The Case of the Right to Truth over “Desaparecidos”Arianna JacqminThis article deals with the birth of the Right to Truth for the families of missing persons. It refers to socio-legal theories about the origins of human rights that deconstruct their moral and philosophical dimension, and place them in the social milieu in which they arise and develop. This theoretical framework helps analyzing the transitional context of Argentina after the dictatorship, where lawyers promoted the Right to Truth, as the best alternative to a missing criminal justice. Through the analysis of legal memories, the article shows how lawyers and activists, by using the seductive human rights rhetoric, were able to attribute legal qualification to a moral aspiration, as they transformed the desire of the victims to know the destiny of all desaparecidos into a new and autonomous right.<br /><br /> Este artículo se centra en el nacimiento del Derecho a la Verdad para las familias de personas desaparecidas. Se refiere a las teorías sociojurídicas sobre los orígenes de los derechos humanos las cuales desconstruyen su dimensión moral y filosófica y los ubican en el contexto social en el cual surgen y se desarrollan. Este marco teórico ayuda a analizar el contexto transicional de la Argentina posterior a la dictadura, en el cual los juristas promovieron el Derecho a la Verdad como alternativa óptima a una justicia penal ausente. A través del análisis de la memoria legal, el artículo muestra cómo los juristas y activistas, utilizando la seductora retórica de derechos humanos, fueron capaces de atribuir calidad jurídica a una aspiración moral, a medida que transformaron el deseo de las víctimas de conocer el destino de todos los desaparecidos en un nuevo derecho autónomo.<br /><br /> <strong>DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN:</strong> <a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=3051031" target="_blank">http://ssrn.com/abstract=3051031</a>http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/866truthdesaparecidoshuman rightstransitional justicelegal rethoric
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title	When Human Claims Become Rights. The Case of the Right to Truth over “Desaparecidos”
title_short	When Human Claims Become Rights. The Case of the Right to Truth over “Desaparecidos”
title_full	When Human Claims Become Rights. The Case of the Right to Truth over “Desaparecidos”
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publishDate	2017-12-01
description	This article deals with the birth of the Right to Truth for the families of missing persons. It refers to socio-legal theories about the origins of human rights that deconstruct their moral and philosophical dimension, and place them in the social milieu in which they arise and develop. This theoretical framework helps analyzing the transitional context of Argentina after the dictatorship, where lawyers promoted the Right to Truth, as the best alternative to a missing criminal justice. Through the analysis of legal memories, the article shows how lawyers and activists, by using the seductive human rights rhetoric, were able to attribute legal qualification to a moral aspiration, as they transformed the desire of the victims to know the destiny of all desaparecidos into a new and autonomous right.<br /><br /> Este artículo se centra en el nacimiento del Derecho a la Verdad para las familias de personas desaparecidas. Se refiere a las teorías sociojurídicas sobre los orígenes de los derechos humanos las cuales desconstruyen su dimensión moral y filosófica y los ubican en el contexto social en el cual surgen y se desarrollan. Este marco teórico ayuda a analizar el contexto transicional de la Argentina posterior a la dictadura, en el cual los juristas promovieron el Derecho a la Verdad como alternativa óptima a una justicia penal ausente. A través del análisis de la memoria legal, el artículo muestra cómo los juristas y activistas, utilizando la seductora retórica de derechos humanos, fueron capaces de atribuir calidad jurídica a una aspiración moral, a medida que transformaron el deseo de las víctimas de conocer el destino de todos los desaparecidos en un nuevo derecho autónomo.<br /><br /> <strong>DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN:</strong> <a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=3051031" target="_blank">http://ssrn.com/abstract=3051031</a>
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When Human Claims Become Rights. The Case of the Right to Truth over “Desaparecidos”

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