Apontamentos acerca da inefetividade dos direitos humanos a partir do exame de suas determinações sócio-históricas

Abstract

This paper examines, in socio-historical basis, the development of human rights and their effectiveness. It begins presenting elements about liberal thought and the development of capitalist societies that demonstrate the possibility of coexistence between a trampled speech in universal equality and the most brutal forms of exploitation and domination. Then locate the expansion of human rights from the popular demands, noting, however, the permanent ineffectiveness of human rights for most non-proprietary. We conclude that, in a society whose pillar universal interests of a proprietary elite, human rights are doomed to systematic rape.