DERECHOS HUMANOS: ¿UTOPÍA SIN CONSENSO?

Abstract

This text constitutes a critical approach of the discourse of human rights, from the fact that although there have been critical interventions in the historical course of human rights, has not proposed a review of human rights under explicit critical premises, much less articulated with the theoretical premises of a radically different from Christian-liberal human rights dominant conception. The contemporary debate on human rights claim that its emancipatory character is problematized, since there is no consensus about what human rights actually are. In that sense, the considerations presented in this article are postulated, methodological and heuristically through thesis; which approach critical issues in contemporary discussion of human rights. These issues are: critical characterization of the concept of human rights; the process of globalization as a basic theoretical matrix of human rights; the need for a multidisciplinary approach to human rights; the multicultural challenge for human rights; the importance of a gender equality perspective on human rights; the centrality of the victim to the discourse of human rights; epistemological obstacles to develop a critical notion of victim, and the struggle for recognition as a foundation of the movement of human rights. Thereby, this text aims to initiate a review of human rights under critical premises.