Addressing Inequality from a Human Rights Perspective
Social and Economic Justice in the Global South
1st Edition
Published on 31. August 2019
291 pages
978-958-5441-91-0 (ISBN)
Description
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: dejusticia.org/publication/adressing-inequality-from-a-human-rights-perspective/
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Ana María Belique Delba
Is a sociologist, social activist, and leader of the Reconoci.do movement, a collective of young Dominicans of Haitian descent that seeks to combat denationalization and racial discrimination in the Dominican Republic.
Evgeny (Zhenya) Belyakov
Is a Russian human rights activist and researcher working in Eastern and Central Europe.
Daniel Bertolucci Torres
Is a lawyer who specializes in the area of refugees and migrants. His master's research is on labor protection for refugees.
Andrés Castro Araújo
Is a former researcher at Dejusticia in the area of economic justice. He is currently finishing a master's degree in applied statistics.
José Galeano Monti
Is a sociologist and researcher at the Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención de la Tortura del Paraguay and at the human rights organization Enfoque Territorial. His research focuses on social exclusion.
Juan Ignacio Leoni
Is a lawyer who specializes in the administration of justice. He works at the Public Defender's Office of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Harsh Mander
Is a writer and human rights and peace worker who works with survivors of mass violence, hunger, and homelessness. He is director of the Centre for Equity Studies in India and edits the annual India Exclusion Report.
Karim Nammour
Is a Lebanese lawyer, researcher, and boardmember of the nongovernmental organization Legal Agenda. He specializes in civil and socioeconomic rights, with particular focus on policies and rights related to drugs, gender, labor, housing, and urbanism.
Martha Ramírez Galeana
Is a young member of the indigenous Me'phaa community from the Montaña region of Guerrero, Mexi-
co. She is a human rights activist who focuses in particular on the rights of indigenous peoples. Currently, she works at the Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan, where she is involved in various activities concerning the local Me'phaa, Ñu savi, and Nahuas communities.
César Rodríguez-Garavito
Is a cofounder of the Center for Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia) and founding director of the Pro-
gram on Global Justice and Human Rights at the University of Los Andes, Colombia.
Isabela do Amaral Sales
Is a legal adviser at the Public Prosecutor's Office of Brazil and a researcher at the Projeto Nova Cartografia Social da Amazônia, where she works on cases of socioenvironmental conflicts.
Is a sociologist, social activist, and leader of the Reconoci.do movement, a collective of young Dominicans of Haitian descent that seeks to combat denationalization and racial discrimination in the Dominican Republic.
Evgeny (Zhenya) Belyakov
Is a Russian human rights activist and researcher working in Eastern and Central Europe.
Daniel Bertolucci Torres
Is a lawyer who specializes in the area of refugees and migrants. His master's research is on labor protection for refugees.
Andrés Castro Araújo
Is a former researcher at Dejusticia in the area of economic justice. He is currently finishing a master's degree in applied statistics.
José Galeano Monti
Is a sociologist and researcher at the Mecanismo Nacional de Prevención de la Tortura del Paraguay and at the human rights organization Enfoque Territorial. His research focuses on social exclusion.
Juan Ignacio Leoni
Is a lawyer who specializes in the administration of justice. He works at the Public Defender's Office of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Harsh Mander
Is a writer and human rights and peace worker who works with survivors of mass violence, hunger, and homelessness. He is director of the Centre for Equity Studies in India and edits the annual India Exclusion Report.
Karim Nammour
Is a Lebanese lawyer, researcher, and boardmember of the nongovernmental organization Legal Agenda. He specializes in civil and socioeconomic rights, with particular focus on policies and rights related to drugs, gender, labor, housing, and urbanism.
Martha Ramírez Galeana
Is a young member of the indigenous Me'phaa community from the Montaña region of Guerrero, Mexi-
co. She is a human rights activist who focuses in particular on the rights of indigenous peoples. Currently, she works at the Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Montaña Tlachinollan, where she is involved in various activities concerning the local Me'phaa, Ñu savi, and Nahuas communities.
César Rodríguez-Garavito
Is a cofounder of the Center for Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia) and founding director of the Pro-
gram on Global Justice and Human Rights at the University of Los Andes, Colombia.
Isabela do Amaral Sales
Is a legal adviser at the Public Prosecutor's Office of Brazil and a researcher at the Projeto Nova Cartografia Social da Amazônia, where she works on cases of socioenvironmental conflicts.
