Particularities and contradictions of human rights in Brazil in times of neoliberalism

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/rep.2024.88518

Keywords:

human rights, neoliberalism, social politics

Abstract

This article discusses human rights – and their relationship with struggles between social
classes – linked to the satisfaction of human needs, through qualitative research with a
bibliographical focus. The contradictions that permeate capitalism and are inseparable from
it drive the reflection presented in this text on human rights, highlighting the advances and
setbacks pertinent to power struggles between classes. Assuming that the bourgeois state
has conservative power hegemony and prioritizes the interests of capital, articulating the
antagonistic relationship between classes through dynamics of repression and coercion, social
policies are an instrument of containment to minimize the barbarity intrinsic to capitalism.
Human Rights are relative and are not naturally granted, so it is the tensions between social
classes that forge contexts of expansion and permanence with repercussions on the role of
the state regarding the legislation of each society in the so-called modern and democratic era.

Author Biographies

Kannanda Emilly Padilha da Silva, Universidade Federal do Tocantins

Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, To - Brasil.

Cecilia Nunes Froemming, Universidade Federal do Tocantins

Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, To - Brasil.

Eliane Marques de Menezes Amicucci, Universidade Federal do Tocantins

Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Palmas, To - Brasil.

Published

2024-12-17

How to Cite

Padilha da Silva, K. E., Nunes Froemming, C., & Marques de Menezes Amicucci, E. (2024). Particularities and contradictions of human rights in Brazil in times of neoliberalism. Revista Em Pauta: Teoria Social E Realidade contemporânea, 22(57). https://doi.org/10.12957/rep.2024.88518

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Artigos - Dossiê Temático | Articles - Thematic Dossier