Nature of Human Rights

In the formation of a new Constitution the constituents will require to know or reach an agreement on the nature of human rights; then, to determine how the State will enforce the respect to those rights. To do so, it is necessary to resort to the history and evolution of these rights, and the prese...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: López Dawson, Carlos
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2016
Country:Costa Rica
Institution:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repository:Portal de Revistas UNA
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/8296
Online Access:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/derechoshumanos/article/view/8296
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Constitución
derechos humanos
epistemología
estado
jus cogens
ius naturalismo
ius positivismo
universalización
globalización
Constitution
human rights
epistemology
state
ius naturalism
positivism ius
globalization
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Summary:In the formation of a new Constitution the constituents will require to know or reach an agreement on the nature of human rights; then, to determine how the State will enforce the respect to those rights. To do so, it is necessary to resort to the history and evolution of these rights, and the present work aims to contribute to an efficient productive debate about the nature of human rights, so that citizens can decide on the understanding that this is a thoughtful democratic and humanistic founded decision. The analysis is in the actual technical-ideological republican system which correspond to the current state of international law