Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe
Abstract
"The first years of the 21 st century having passed, it is now necessary to readdress human rights during a time characterized by a scarcity of will for its preservation", says the Argentinean psychologist Elio Rodolfo Parisí in this essay, contributing important elements to an understanding of the sociopolitical and sociohistorical discourse which supports such rights, how they are situated in Latin America, and how they are legitimized in a globalizing context. It reminds us that, even if there is legislation that protects human rights, the struggle for their survival has been and will be represented by confrontation between opressors and opressed."Transcurridos los primeros años del siglo XXI, es necesario refrendar los derechos humanos en una era que escatima voluntad para su preservación", nos dice el psicólogo argentino Elio Rodolfo Parisí en este ensayo, que aporta importantes elementos para dilucidar qué discurso sociopolítico y sociohistórico sostiene tales derechos, de qué manera se ubican en América Latina y cómo pueden legitimarse en un contexto globalizador. Y nos recuerda que, aunque exista una legislación que los proteja, la lucha por su prevalencia ha sido y será una confrontación entre oprimidos y opresores
