Reviving Social Rights in Latin America

The Potential Role of International Human Rights Documents

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4525239
AutoresPatricia Richards (0000-0001-6727-0409, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume4
Fascículo2
Páginas189-206
Data de publicação2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621020050078087
OpenAlexW2037299925
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas25

Social rights are essential to our ability to fully participate in society. In Latin America, these rights are increasingly marginalized as neoliberal policies take hold. At the same time, the related concepts of civil society and social capital are often incorporated into strategies aimed at alleviating the problems of the Latin American poor. It is expected that by strengthening people's civic capacity, their sense of mutual responsibility and ability to self-provide certain services will be enhanced. In the context of the current policy environment, however, such strategies are unlikely to be entirely successful. Lack of economic resources may preclude the Latin American poor from effective civic participation. More importantly, the promotion of civil society and social capital on the part of aid agencies and governments may represent an implicit threat to social rights, in as much as the organizations advocated are not likely to actively struggle for expansion of rights. Nevertheless, human rights documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child provide a base upon which rights-based movements can be constructed

Civil society · Convention · Declaration · Fundamental rights · Human rights · International human rights law · Latin Americans · Linguistic rights · Political science · Politics · Right to property · Rights of Nature · Social rights · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Work Education and Practice