{"title":"Demanding what is rightfully theirs. The link between social justice protests and economic, cultural, and social rights","authors":"Mohamed Berrada","doi":"10.18543/djhr.2621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18543/djhr.2621","url":null,"abstract":"The right to peaceful assembly and association have been central to the notion of human rights since their very first iterations. A selection of key peaceful protest movements in the 21st century shows that the movements themselves are expressing demands that are in line with the human rights approach (Ortiz et al. 2022). Among the main findings is that over half of protest movements incorporate some economic or social justice demand (higher wages, jobs, housing, healthcare, pensions…). This article looks at protest movements that have demands that are linked to rights expressed by the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (United Nations 1966). Though protesters do not express their demands in the language of human rights, their demands for social justice are mostly already enshrined in the declaration. The author compares demands of economic justice to their counterpart in terms of rights, stressing the need for countries to reexamine their own policies considering these protests or potentially face escalating social unrest. \u0000Received: 20 July 2022 Accepted: 30 November 2022","PeriodicalId":32727,"journal":{"name":"Deusto Journal of Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43968886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La agenda feminista en la propuesta de una nueva Constitución para Chile","authors":"Virginia Guzmán","doi":"10.18543/djhr.2610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18543/djhr.2610","url":null,"abstract":"El presente artículo analiza las relaciones que se entablan entre procesos socioculturales contestatarios y el establecimiento de normas jurídicas dentro del contexto de elaboración de una nueva Constitución en Chile (2019-2022). Se pregunta por los acontecimientos que convergieron en el estallido social en Chile en octubre de 2019 y que dieron lugar, en un contexto de gran inestabilidad política, a una salida institucional demandada desde los movimientos sociales: la elaboración de una nueva Constitución a través de instancias democráticas y participativas. El análisis esclarece el papel de los movimientos feministas como fuerza transformadora democrática, su incidencia en la institucionalización de la Convención Constitucional y en la incorporación de las demandas feministas en la propuesta de nueva Constitución. Las fuentes de este análisis son la participación en el proceso constituyente y la observación participante del mismo, la realización de entrevistas en profundidad, la intervención en articulaciones feministas y en plataformas digitales, y la información producida por la Convención Constitucional y los observatorios de seguimiento.Palabras clave: Acceso a la vivienda, inmigrantes, actitudes racistas, discursos racistas, precariedad económica, relaciones intergrupales. \u0000Recibido: 20 junio 2022 Aceptado: 07 noviembre 2022","PeriodicalId":32727,"journal":{"name":"Deusto Journal of Human Rights","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41535020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo y la búsqueda de los niños apropiados: repertorios de acción y estrategias políticas en dictadura y democracia","authors":"Fabricio Andrés Laino Sanchis","doi":"10.18543/djhr.2626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18543/djhr.2626","url":null,"abstract":"En este artículo nos proponemos abordar los orígenes y el desarrollo histórico del activismo de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, organización argentina de defensa de los derechos humanos que brega por la localización, identificación y restitución a sus familias biológicas de los niños y las niñas apropiadas por las Fuerzas Armadas y de Seguridad durante la última dictadura en ese país. Nos detendremos en la conformación histórica de la organización, primero como un grupo dentro de Madres de Plaza de Mayo y luego como una asociación independiente. Analizaremos las tácticas y el repertorio de acción que sus integrantes desplegaron durante la vigencia del régimen militar para buscar a sus nietos y nietas e instalar la denuncia de su desaparición, a nivel nacional e internacional. Por último, abordaremos cómo fue cambiando el repertorio de acción y discursivo de la organización desde la posdictadura hasta los años 2000. \u0000Recibido: 05 septiembre 2022 Aceptado: 12 noviembre 2022","PeriodicalId":32727,"journal":{"name":"Deusto Journal of Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47604452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We’ll miss it when it’s gone: The assault on –and the fight to save– democracy in the United States today","authors":"Jeff Kelly Lowenstein, Danny Postel","doi":"10.18543/djhr.2624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18543/djhr.2624","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the sweeping assault on democratic rights in the United States today, the far-reaching impact of Donald Trump’s presidency and development of «permanent Trumpism» on American political culture, and the activist mobilization against these forces. The authors discuss the growing alarm among scholars of democracy about the increasing «autocratization» of US politics and the «Orbanization» of the Republican Party. They examine how these dynamics are playing out at the local level, with a focus on the «swing» state of Michigan. They look at the growth of armed White Power groups and the turn to political violence in the US. They analyze the proliferation of conspiratorial claims (such as the assertion that the 2020 election was stolen) and the mainstreaming of far-right ideas (such as the «Great Replacement») via a right-wing media ecosystem that increasingly sustains a parallel epistemic universe. The authors map out the apparatus of election theft that is setting the stage for another coup attempt, and various measures designed to make it more difficult to vote. They review the scholarly debate about the nature of Trumpism. Finally, they discuss the growing resistance to Trumpism and various forms of organizing to defend democracy and defeat authoritarianism. \u0000Received: 11 July 2022 Accepted: 23 November 2022","PeriodicalId":32727,"journal":{"name":"Deusto Journal of Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42065895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ortiz, Isabel et al. 2022. World Protests. A Study of Key Protest. Issues in the 21st Century. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 185 p. Eyal, Nadav. Revolt. 2021. The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization. Londres: Picador. 515 p.","authors":"M. Aguirre","doi":"10.18543/djhr.2614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18543/djhr.2614","url":null,"abstract":"Durante los últimos 20 años la protesta social ha tenido un papel relevante en más de 100 países. La mayor parte de estas protestas han sido pacíficas y han tenido como objetivo movilizar a los Estados para contar con más justicia y tener acceso a cuestiones que se enmarcan en los derechos humanos denominados de segunda generación (económicos, sociales y culturales). Aunque hay una dura respuesta por parte de gobiernos autoritarios, la protesta parece haberse instalado como una forma de vida de numerosos grupos sociales. ","PeriodicalId":32727,"journal":{"name":"Deusto Journal of Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47191242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Derechos Humanos y protesta social: una relación compleja y necesaria. Introducción al monográfico","authors":"Mariano Aguirre","doi":"10.18543/djhr.2608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18543/djhr.2608","url":null,"abstract":"La protesta social ha estado presente en la vida política de más de un centenar de países en los últimos 20 años. En este número monográfico del Deusto Journal of Human Rights se analizan las relaciones entre derechos humanos y protesta, con especial atención a los de segunda generación, derechos humanos y violencia, y los mecanismos con que cuentan estados y sociedades civiles para gestionar las demandas de cambio social. Tomando en particular el caso de América Latina se analizan diversas formas de protesta y múltiples dilemas que generan. Así también, se presentan casos específicos de protestas de familiares de presos políticos en Egipto, la protesta ante el ascenso de la ultraderecha en Estados Unidos y la protesta transgeneracional en Argentina frente a los desaparecidos por la dictadura militar de 1976.","PeriodicalId":32727,"journal":{"name":"Deusto Journal of Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46239410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El derecho a la protesta social y la acción de las Naciones Unidas","authors":"Guillermo Fernández Maldonado","doi":"10.18543/djhr.2609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18543/djhr.2609","url":null,"abstract":"El artículo analiza las entidades, recursos y acciones del sistema de protección internacional de derechos humanos de las Naciones Unidas en favor del derecho a la protesta social en América Latina. Aborda la evolución normativo-institucional y posibles interacciones de gobiernos y sujetos de derechos con los órganos de los tratados, los procedimientos especiales, el Examen Periódico Universal del Consejo de Derechos Humanos y la Oficina del Alto Comisionado de Derechos Humanos. Busca atender la necesidad de un mayor conocimiento del mandato y las capacidades de acción de las Naciones Unidas en la materia. También explica la desigual presencia y respuesta ante presuntas violaciones de este derecho, que contrasta con las altas expectativas sociales sobre la acción internacional. \u0000Recibido: 07 julio 2022Aceptado: 24 septiembre 2022","PeriodicalId":32727,"journal":{"name":"Deusto Journal of Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43282623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of protests on the journey to a politics without violence","authors":"J. Pearce, Iván Garzón Vallejo","doi":"10.18543/djhr.2623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18543/djhr.2623","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the relationship between protest, violence and the possibility of a politics without violence. It argues that protest is not only a valid but also a necessary vehicle for the journey towards a politics without violence. Nevertheless, violence can emerge within protests as well as in response to them. The article will propose a thinking tool for understanding violence as a phenomenon with multiple expressions. It discusses movements to de-sanction violence and the research that has highlighted the role of non-violent protest, constructive nonviolent action and civil resistance in the history of social change. It will reflect on recent data bases which record the rise in protests in recent years and the role of violence within them. Finally, it will take the social protests in Chile and Colombia in 2019 and 2021, where although violence erupted mainly as vandalism and looting, with severe violent police responses, both protests, we argue, contributed to delineating a politics without violence through generating intermediation channels between the demands of the street and the institutional mechanisms for processing social change. \u0000Received: 07 August 2022 Accepted: 28 November 2022","PeriodicalId":32727,"journal":{"name":"Deusto Journal of Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49316060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hinton, Elizabeth. 2021. America on Fire. Police Violence, Black Rebellion and the Fracturing of a Nation. Londres: William Collins Books. 396 p.","authors":"Mabel González Bustelo","doi":"10.18543/djhr.2612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18543/djhr.2612","url":null,"abstract":"El movimiento actual por la justicia racial en Estados Unidos se construye sobre una larga tradición y sus prácticas de protesta militante y no violenta que incorporan elementos de la acción directa usada por el movimiento por los derechos civiles y de las críticas al racismo sistémico que se asocian a los movimientos del Poder Negro. Al frente de esta nueva generación está Black Lives Matter, creado en 2013. El movimiento contra la desigualdad y el supremacismo blanco es de resistencia y no solamente de igualdad de derechos.","PeriodicalId":32727,"journal":{"name":"Deusto Journal of Human Rights","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44367988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El liberalismo autoritario y la crisis de la Unión Europea","authors":"Claudia Atzeni","doi":"10.20318/dyl.2023.7341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20318/dyl.2023.7341","url":null,"abstract":"El concepto de liberalismo autoritario formulado por Hermann Heller en 1932 se ha convertido en objeto de discusión en el debate contemporáneo. De hecho, la crisis política y económica europea de los últimos 10 años parece actualizar perfectamente la idea de un retroceso democrático del orden económico liberal. En este artículo voy a analizar el nivel teórico y conceptual del liberalismo autoritario para luego centrarme en la influencia que esto tuvo sobre algunas formas de liberalismo contemporáneo (como el ordoliberalismo y el neoliberalismo) practicadas tanto durante el proceso de integración como en las respuestas de las instituciones ante la crisis europea.","PeriodicalId":32727,"journal":{"name":"Deusto Journal of Human Rights","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85751225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}