Human Rights (241121)

Learning Outcomes

  • Acquire knowledge for the historical process understanding of human rights and the need to understand its limits and possibilities in capitalist society;
  • Acquire knowledge about the main sources, systems, standards and international human rights issues;
  • Acquire analytical capacity of the various international instruments consign Human Rights and your warranty;
  • Acquire analytical capacity of human rights enshrined in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic;
  • Acquire ability to question the meaning of conceptions of human rights;
  • Raising awareness on the recognition of the work of social workers in promoting, defending and fighting for human rights.
  • Knows European human rights culture and the main European law.

Study Program

I - Historicity of Human Rights

  1. The historical process of constitution of Human Rights
  2. Fundamentals and meaning of Human Rights
  3. Statements, major Covenants, Treaties and Conventions
  4. Poverty as a violation of human rights
  5. Human Rights, Participation and Democracy
  6. Neoliberalism and the erosion of social rights and human rights
  7. Emerging Trends and Challenges of Human Rights

 

II - The Constitutional consecration of Fundamental Social Rights

  1. From individual rights to political rights
  2. From political rights to social rights
  3. The ideological issue and the financial issue
  4. Assumptions and principles
  5. Social Rights in the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic

 

III - Fundamental Rights, Human Rights and Rights of Personality

  1. Constitutional Scope
  2. Civil Consecration
  3. European Consecration
    • In the European Convention on Human Rights
    • The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
    • In the European Convention for the Future
    • In the Treaty of Lisbon

 

IV - International organizations, social movements and human rights

  1. The United Nations
  2. Amnesty International and other ONGs
  3. Social Movements and struggles for equality and recognition of difference and effectiveness of Human Rights

 

V - Social Work and Human Rights

  1. Social Work and the construction of Social Rights
  2. Contemporary Expressions of Social Issues, Human Rights and Social Work
  3. Ethics, Human Rights and Social Work

Bibliography

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CANOTILHO, J. G. (2009) Direito Constitucional e Teoria da Constituição. Coimbra. Almedina.

 

GOUVEIA, B. J. (2004). Legislação de direitos fundamentais. Coimbra: Almedina.

 

GUERRA, Y. (2010). Direitos Sociais e sociedade de classes: O discurso do “direito a ter direitos”. Forti, V. Guerra, Y. (org.). Ética e Direitos: ensaios críticos. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Lúmen Júris. pp. 31-54

 

Imprensa Nacional (2015) Tratado de Lisboa. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional

 

MARINHO, L. M. (2003) A Europa na Hora da Verdade. Coimbra: Minerva

 

NETTO, J (2009). Democracia e Direitos Humanos na América Latina. Em FREIRE, S (org.). Direitos Humanos e Questão Social na América Latina. Rio Janeiro: Gramma.

 

TRINDADE, J. L. (1998). Anotações sobre a História Social dos Direitos Humanos – in – São Paulo (Estado). São Paulo: Centro de Estudos da Procuradoria Geral do Estado, 1998. Acedido em Setembro 2011, em http://www.dhnet.org.br/direitos/anthist/index.html