The end of social rights: a return to true human rights

Abstract

For several years it has been taking effect in a new position of defense of human rights. That stream of rediscovery of the West's values is already at the doorstep. But not in Latin America, where we have erected the walls of demagoguery and lies.
Many believe that the attention paid to this issue is recent. It's not like that. The core of Western law and our efforts to find a fairer social order are rooted in the ancient Judeo-Christian traditions of exaltation of the human person, with all their individuality.
Modern contribution is the distinction we make today between violations of individual rights, committed by other individuals or groups of individuals, and those committed by THE STATE when it perverts the law and is overreached in its possession. The great violator of human rights has been, and remains the Esta-do as a device on which social power has been concentrated.
It is in this light that the much-loved "UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS"1 of the United Nations, 1948, must be understood. On the one hand, it is a statement BETWEEN STATES, that is, among those who have always been the violators of human rights. On the other hand, in a spirit of political commitment, in which the principles were set aside, the Western tradition of respect for human rights was reconciled with the socialist tradition of "permits" granted by the state. The concept was sacrificed in the commitment, and since then human rights have become something else that no longer represents either the aspirations or the great achievements of Christianity and the West.