WHAT IS IT?

The Charter of Emerging Human Rights (CEHR) is designed to be an evolving guide for state bodies and other institutions for the development of human rights in the new millenium.

It contemplates two types of rights, ones that have been pertinent but unconsidered up until now, and ones whose need has been created by the transformations in our society by globalization and technology.

It does not aim to negate or disqualify any of the existing rights of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but, in fact, to actualize them. It aims to complement the rights that we already have from the viewpoint of participatory citizenship.

The CEHR recognizes the complexity of the human rights, and aims to get away from the historical dichotomy in which rights were divided between civil and political, economic, social and cultural. Moreover, it intends to overcome some of the contradictions between collective and individual rights.

STRUCTURE

The Charter of Emerging Human Rights has an unusual structure for a document with these characteristics, as it has two very different parts.

The first explains the importance of the Charter with a list of the values and principles on which it is based. But one of the points of departure of this Charter over others is that its values are not static, because the approach taken is that every generation is different, and because of this it is important to consider the values of each generation separately and define them. These values are dignity, life, equality, solidarity, positive coexistence, peace, freedom and knowledge. The Charter insists that the values upon which it is based must be understood from multiple perspectives. These are: the principle of coherence, of horizontality, of the promotion of multiculturality, of solidarity, of political participation, of gender, of social inclusion, of non-discrimination and of security.

The second part comprises of articles structured under the following titles:

• Right to egalitarian Democracy
• Right to pluralistic Democracy
• Right to peer Democracy;
• Right to participatory Democracy;
• Right to humanitarianDemocracy;
• Right to guaranteed Democracy.