Human Rights: the unstoppable force (original) (raw)

In the beginning of the century, global processes produced numerous challenges to theorists because theory no longer reflected reality. Population movements, organized civil society, transnational companies changed the status of sovereignty. Rights no longer stemmed from private attributes of nationality, people have been seeking in human rights legislation, universal principles and international instruments to guarantee their well-being. Every human being is born with a framework of inalienable rights. Moreover, that means that we agreed that principles such as dignity were worth preserving, which was not always the case. During this article, it is aimed to show how society and the Human Rights framework aggregated values that moved us closer to the idea of society we want to become. In addition, it is shown how Institutions and nongovernmental actors were a big part of this culture change. The sovereign acts of states increasingly became privileges from which derived rights and duties. From the time that states began to join international organizations, ratify human rights treaties, they become willingly parts of a framework of legal protection to ensure legitimacy. However, this legal framework provides standards that must be followed in order to maintain stability in the international system. The 60s and 70s are known as times of great turbulence in the economic and political sphere. After this period, non-state actors emerge with strength, and relevant role to be considered and understand in the new world dynamics. The term globalization is now commonly used to refer to the intensification of transnational interactions and cross-border. The multiplicity of actors and the emergence of transnational civil society organizations are important factors to explain the change in the structure, through the strengthening of human rights culture and the transformation of the identity of the actors as more moral. Most of the information transmission and awareness of rules and policies focusing on protection of the individual is made by civil society.

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