Human rights are recurrently referred to in political and social speeches, interviews or debates. Representatives of the planet’s richest countries meet in Davos and human rights are called to the agenda, but everything remains the same. In fact, I think that never before have people’s fundamental rights been so violated, postponed, forgotten! In these cold winter days, there is no humanitarian thought that does not reflect on the shortcomings, the absence of affection, the misery of the homeless who roam the cities, towns and places of this world, having as their bed the damp floor of some staircase, for roof the open sky and for light only moonlight, if any. Far away, children who are victims of wars die without realizing why and for what they were born. Even further away, or perhaps closer to our eyes, thousands of migrant and refugee children, many of them orphans, peer sadly at the ruin that surrounds them, not realizing that there is another world of opulence, waste and futility. In other places, children, women, men and elderly people with bare feet and despair in their souls die of hunger and thirst without even imagining that there are other places where water is wasted and food is wasted. This is the perverse reality experienced in deceptive globalization, which serves business, travel, riches, displays of luxury and power, but has not been able to share among those who have nothing what others have too much. The eradication of poverty is not a utopia, it is achievable if the human being and the democratic rule of law want it. The sharing of essential goods more equitably is established as a priority objective in life. It will be enough to be just and solidary. The right to a dignified life is inherent to human beings. All are creditors of an existence with minimum conditions of survival, home, family, health, education, culture, food and work. Our Constitution guarantees these requirements, but they are seen as programmatic principles! The same respect for these basic rights is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and many other diplomas with international force. All over the world, NGOs dedicate themselves fully to supporting those who suffer, the sick, the hungry, the displaced, refugees and immigrants. All they lack is the ability to multiply bread. But it’s not enough. International law cannot continue to be violated, the domestic law of each country cannot continue to be trampled on in terms of human rights. The intervention of humanitarian states is required to, as enshrined in the CRP, promote well-being, quality of life and real equality among all, as well as the realization of economic, social, cultural and environmental rights. Only in this way will the darkness of atrocious inequality between rich and poor be overcome. Only then will human rights be fulfilled.
*Former director of DCIAP
the author writes according to the old spelling
