Initial text in Portuguese
Authorship: Karladriane da Silva
Authorship: Moisés Manzano Montes (Spain)
Review: Lucas Faria, Sabrina Ferreira and Laís Fritzen
English Translation: Vitória Leona
Among the greatest manifestations in protection of life is the Universal Statement of Civil Rights (UDHR) of 1948 It states that every person must be able to check out, analyze, assimilate, and disseminate viewpoints in their most varied social teams. The UDHR is a method to battle inequalities, making sure equity and equality of responsibilities and rights amongst people, as well as citizenship. Its production was definitely a transforming factor in the defense of human self-respect. It also defends among the best freedoms of man: freedom of thought. Every individual deserves to express themselves without suffering hazards, without being silenced with fierce actions, or suffering persecution. The State should shield without restricting, guaranteeing, in all elements, the dignity and stability of residents, since before the Universal Affirmation, numerous infractions of free expression of thought were shown throughout human background.
In remarkable scenarios, civils rights, due to the fact that they are not absolute, can be limited. And the main issue may be connected to their effectiveness, applicability requirements, and hierarchical problems (one right is limited in connection with others). In spite of numerous accomplishments, violations still happen, and hardship, inequalities, prejudice and discrimination, physical and mental misuse, armed disputes, enslavement, and others are on the rise. There are constraints to using and working out legal rights.
In many countries, there are no public policies that prefer the UDHR, and this enhances and maintains social inequalities. Although it is a record authorized by lots of nations and recognized worldwide as an advancement and achievement of freedom against tyrannical types of government, it is necessary that every person has access to education as a form of intellectual expansion, particularly countries that have not yet complied with the UDHR. Among the most significant short articles is Write-up XIX: “Everybody deserves to flexibility of opinion and expression; this right consists of liberty to hold opinions without interference and to seek, obtain, and give info and ideas via any kind of media and no matter frontiers” (UNITED NATIONS,1948
With regard to psychological wellness, all professionals in this area must guide their work toward promoting regard and biopsychosocial health that includes the perfects of liberty, dignity, equality, and stability of people. The UDHR is present in all fields of task, in addition to in the code of ethics of various occupations. In this way, it adds to all people, without distinction, being acknowledged and acknowledging themselves as topics with the right to a dignified life.
It is needed to assess the present context, where there is a development of oppressive, tyrannical, and regressive propositions relating to residents’ rights, in which subjectivity is tormented by attitudes of intolerance, hostility, and fundamentalism that invalidate the suffering of individuals and objective to snuff out distinctions. All professionals have to support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; despite partial position, this is an ethical-political placement that we must consider the survival of humanity. Furthermore, it is required to damage normative and overbearing patterns, take into account subjectivities and variety, and advertise inclusion. At the very same time, we need to progress in this expansion today, as some doubters of the UDHR mark its material as being partially remote from Eastern perceptiveness and one of the most susceptible minorities.
For that reason, we observe a void in between reliable materialization and simple programmatic rhetoric. To put it simply, the birth of the UDHR represented historic, agreed-upon, and constructive progression, however left much of its policy to the nations worried. That is why its protection is continuous, like any type of other right. Without it, its feeling of defense fades right into a diverse symptom of purposes far gotten rid of from existing concerns.
References: UNITED NATIONS. Universal Affirmation of Civil Rights, 1948 Offered at: https://www.unicef.org. Accessed on: Jan. 31, 2024