Alicia Ely Yamin

America Latina es la region de mayor desigualdad economica del mundo en terminos de ingresos. A pesar del crecimiento de la region, esta desigualdad aumento durante los ultimos cincuenta y, sobre todo, los ultimos veinte anos, con resultados previsibles: disminucion del salario real, aumento del desempleo y compresion de la clase social media. A la vez hubo una abrupta reduccion del gasto publico en salud, educacion y otros servicios sociales. Sin embargo, frente a la violacion sistematica de los derechos sociales, el movimiento latinoamericano por los derechos humanos, forjado en muchos casos a lo largo de anos de dictaduras militares, es uno de los mas poderosos del mundo y empieza a dedicarse mas a la promocion y proteccion de estos derechos en la region. Las masivas violaciones actuales de los derechos sociales, asi como el cumulo de experiencias que tienen los grupos de derechos humanos y otros grupos en la promocion de los derechos sociales, hacen que este momento sea especialmente importante para aprender lecciones de los avances en la promocion y proteccion de los derechos sociales en la region y para analizar desafios, obstaculos y estrategias. A traves de los aportes de muchos de los principales activistas y academicos de la region y de Estados Unidos, este libro considera los desafios que presentan varios paises de la region para la promocion de los derechos sociales y asimismo examina las estrategias aplicadas a proteger una serie de derechos especificos (salud, educacion, seguridad social, vivienda, entre otros) y explica los efectos de la carga de la deuda, las politicas estructurales de ajuste y los tratados comerciales en la promocion de los derechos sociales.

del invento a la herramienta

Derechos económicos, sociales y culturales en América Latina

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the last thirty years of health, economic, and social rights advancement within the international human rights community. Alicia Ely Yamin reflects on her firsthand experience as an academic, practitioner, and advocate to explore the shift in how international human rights bodies approached issues of health and ill-health. Yamin argues the narrative has evolved to view health as a human right, encapsulating health crises as injustices, not simply misfortunes. Starting with debates in the 1970s, Yamin carefully surveys the points of intersection and friction between the fields of law, public health, and economics and development conversations to show how the general discourse evolved over time. When Misfortune Becomes Injustice tells a story of extraordinary progress with respect to the right to health over the last few decades, including how traditional forms of tyranny and discrimination were curbed, and how new discourses of equality were formed. However, Yamin shows that the possibilities and political space necessary to advance a robustly egalitarian health rights agenda are increasingly shrinking with growing inequality, and a greater attention to diverse strategies for resistance and social transformation is sorely needed.

Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice

Paul Farmer

Directed at a diverse audience of students, legal and public health practitioners, and anyone interested in understanding what human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health and development mean and why they matter, this book provides a solid foundation for comprehending what a human rights framework implies and the potential for social transformation it entails.

Human Rights Frameworks for Health and Why They Matter

Power, Suffering, and the Struggle for Dignity

Andy Sumner

Malcolm Langford

This volume sets out to disentangle the debate about the Millennium Development goals in theory and practice.

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