Human rights: from theoretical possibility to practical (im)possibility in an age of inherent inequalities
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https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.3249Abstract
This article questions the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, discussing why its universality is (im)possible and why it is important to reconfigure it to achieve universal recognition of a set of Human Rights so as to enable them to be implemented effectively. In this regard, the article proposes the creation of a minimum global common culture as a starting point to achieve a maximum global common culture which can enable the humanisation of societies. It will also discuss concepts considered to be fundamental and their implementation in the modern world, where social inequalities tend to become ingrained due to the social anaesthesia of the most vulnerable groups of society owing to the assumption of a fatalism rooted in ‘producers of consent’. These issues are the leitmotif and serve as a common thread for the articles which follow, together constituting the thematic nucleus of this issue of Revista Portuguesa de Educação.
Keywords
Human Rights; Inequality; Equality; Humanity
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