SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Victòria Abellán, Professor of International Public Law at the University of Barcelona.

“Commitments in relation to the right of development”
(PDF 59Kb, Spanish)
In this draft project the author writes about the commitments that developed countries have to acquire with developing countries. Thus, the first have to guarantee the exercise of development right through the adoption of different measures as financial fund prevision, disposition of 0.7% of GDP before 2015, to finish with unsustainable production methods...

Jordi Borja, Sociologist and Town Planner.

“About Emerging Rights and Citizens Rights”
(PDF 141Kb, Spanish)
The author claims citizen’s rights from global as well as local rights perspectives to emphasize its political condition, a basic question for its efficiency as the author states. From this claim, he proposes some urban rights such as to have a public places and monumentality, to centrality, to political innovation, to have a city as a shelter, to local justice and security.

Victòria Camps, Professor of Ethics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

“Values of the Emerging Rights”
(PDF 76Kb, Spanish)
She begins from the idea that values are not static, that their meanings vary with the time. Hence, she states that the Charter of Emerging Human Rights is the result of how we understand these values nowadays. From this statement, she analyses what is presently meant by dignity, life, equality, solidarity, coexistence, peace, freedom and knowledge.

Monique Chemillier-Gendrau, Professor of International Public Law at the University Paris VII.

“Declaration of the Emerging Human Rights”
(PDF 99Kb, French)
She vindicates the universal public interest that emanates from world society as an element that articulates human rights. From this affirmation, and adding that her aim is nothing more than just actualizing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to new needs, she proposes several articles that take into account these new protection needs.

Cándido Gryzibowski, Director of IBASE (Brasil) and representative of the World Social Forum.

“Right to development, Solidarity Democracy”
(PDF 131Kb, Portuguese)
In his draft project, Grzybowski establishes the basis on which we can discuss the Right to Development (recognized in 1986 through United Nations General Assembly and reaffirmed at the Vienna Conference in 1993). He defines this right as a collective right; as a right that emerges from solidarity democracy; as a right that claims the right to have a favorable international order; as right to science, technology and knowledge; as right to sovereignty and food and nutrional security; and, as a right to have an own culture.

Gloria Ramírez, Unesco Professor at the Autonomous University of Mexico.

“From the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights at 20th Century to the Charter of Emerging Human Rights at 21st Century”
(PDF 93Kb, Spanish)
Her draft project reflects on the need to adopt a Charter of Emerging Human Rights that includes rights which have been 'submerged' until now, and new rights that have emerged from transformations that have arrisen in our societies in the last 60 years. She thinks about this initiative from two different perspectives, to reinforce and to actualize the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Finally, she studies which principles and values should govern it.

Sonia Picado, President of Interamerican Human Rights Institute.

“Notes about the Emerging Human Rights and its possible relation with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”
(PDF 92Kb, Spanish)
She reviews the articles of the Declaration of Human Rights, which in her opinion should be actualized. Hence, she analyses articles 7, 8, 14, 27 and 28 referring to equality, protection of fundamental rights, protection to refugees and humanitarian rights, to development, to environment and to cultural identity. She finishes her work by raising some questions for reflection.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Professor of Economy and Sociological Studies at the Coimbra University, Portugal.

“Human Rights and the World Social Forum”
(PDF 73Kb, Spanish)
The paper is planned though the following question: Why are human rights movements a small part of the movements that take part in the World Social Forum? De Sousa takes into consideration two possible explanations, which develop through his paper. He finalize his discourse stating that human rights, as we understand them, are a northern invention, and have been badly implemented in the south, and consequently it is necessary for the south to take part in its design and conceptualization. Finally, he proposes some political tasks.

Guy Standing, Co-President of the European Basic Income Network.

“The Basic Income: an Economic Right of the 21st Century”
(PDF 69Kb)
This draft project starts by defining what basic income is; and claims it as an essential element to having real freedom, to give a real meaning to the idea of citizenship, to promote human dignity and to have social justice. Finally, he states that this kind of income is preferable to any other kind of subsidy.

Michael Walzer, Professor of Social Science of the Advanced Studies Institute, Princenton University, USA.

“The Right to have Effective Rights”
(PDF 63Kb)
Walzer reflects in his draft project about the right to have effective rights. He affirms that it is the state that has to guarantee them, but that in the case in which the State cannot guarantee them, then there are many agents that can do it such as sub state associations, regional alliances, the police, or the courts of justice of a future global regime. However, he states that the State is the preferable entity because of its proximity and its democratic control.