Critical to the occidental logic of human rights: are the human rights in crisis?

Abstract

This article will deal with the human rights crisis in the Occidental world, analyzing social rights and applying political rights as a system change. In what follows, Occidental conceptions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be approach as a background to the analysis of the work of Norberto Bobbio - The Age of Rights as a positivist discussion that reinforces a system of human rights based on homogenizing, hierarchical and universal logic. Regarding political rights and the importance of their exercise in public spaces for the contribution of citizenship analysis and the political participation of vulnerable sectors. This discussion contributes to the debate on the crisis of the Occidental world to understand the new forms of expression of inequality, poverty and critical forms of social justice for the rights of the working class to achieve some structural changes.