Addressing Inequality from a Human Rights Perspective

Addressing Inequality from a Human Rights Perspective

Social and Economic Justice in the Global South

  • Author: Belique, Ana María; Belyakov, Evgeny; Bertolucci, Daniel; Castro Araujo, Andrés; Galeano, José; Leoni, Juan Ignacio; Mander, Harsh; Nammour, Karim; Ramírez, Martha
  • Publisher: Dejusticia
  • Serie: Dejusticia
  • ISBN: 9789585441910
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789585441927
  • Place of publication:  Bogotá , Colombia
  • Year of publication: 2019
  • Pages: 291

This book points to an emerging set of ideas and practices being developed by activists, scholars, and courts from a range of countries that reveals the potential of human rights to resolve other radical injustices and to build more robust civil society movements against inequality and deregulation. Numerous countries around the globe are witnessing a similar experience in their modern political contexts: democratic tools and human rights instruments—which have facilitated undeniable improvements in the lives of millions—are proving largely insufficient for preventing extreme forms of exclusion. In other words, while human rights have played a fundamental role in highlighting inequalities based on factors such as gender and ethnic and racial identity, they have coexisted alongside persistent socioeconomic injustices and the rise of authoritarian populist governments that are jeopardizing human rights institutions and principles worldwide. Against this panorama, some are arguing that the human rights movement is incapable of warding off social injustice, while others are calling for a separation of the human rights and social movements. This book offers a third way: it points to an emerging set of ideas and practices being developed by activists, scholars, and courts from a range of countries that reveals the potential of human rights to resolve other radical injustices and to build more robust civil society movements against inequality and deregulation. Descripción tomada de: https://www.dejusticia.org/publication/adressing-inequality-from-a-human-rights-perspective/

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Introduction: New Practices and Narratives on Social Justice from the Global South, César Rodríguez-Garavito
  • Chapter 1 From the Bateyes to Activism: Racial Discrimination against and Citizenship of Dominicans of Haitian Descent, Ana María Belique Delba (Dominican Republic)
  • Chapter 2 The Fate of Indigenous Women in Mexico: Ajmú Mbaa and the Roots of the Earth, Martha Ramírez Galeana (Mexico)
  • Chapter 3 Surviving in the City: Indigenous Migration in Northern Brazil, Isabela do Amaral Sales (Brazil)
  • Chapter 4 A Matter of Plastic: Asylum-Seeker Documents in Brazil, Daniel Bertolucci Torres (Brazil)
  • Chapter 5 Personal Narratives from the Margins: Empathy and Public Policy in Buenos Aires, Juan Ignacio Leoni (Argentina)
  • Chapter 6 What Outrages Society: The Living Conditions of Women Deprived of Liberty in Paraguay, José Galeano Monti (Paraguay)
  • Chapter 7 Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism: How Radical Market Reforms in Russia Destroyed a Fledgling Democracy, Evgeny (Zhenya) Belyakov (Russia)
  • Chapter 8 Battle for Artificial Paradises: The War on Drugs in Lebanon, Its Consequences, and the Fight to End It, Karim Nammour (Lebanon)
  • Chapter 9 The Power behind Numbers: Statistical Visibility and Inequality in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, Andrés Castro Araújo (Colombia)
  • Chapter 10 Human Rights, Ethics, and Love: Dilemmas of Practice, Harsh Mander (India)
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