Gender and human rights: In search of female otherness

Human rights from the twentieth century suffered a great process of positive, through treaties, conventions and charters. A range of guarantees is to be erected in a universalizing. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 brought a principled and normative basis from which we think the rights alluded to this day. However, idissiocrasias experienced when we refer to the realization of human rights today are very different from when promulgated the Declaration. Characterization of universal human rights as if they were able to achieve all subjects by simply being human, regardless of their origin, class differences, cultures, etc.. Produces marginalization in groups that are to be considered as "the other ", ie they are incapable of experiencing human rights really. In this sense, women as a category of gender, represent an important group that is put the margin of these rights. This is because although they are formally considered subject of rights, are unable to enjoy human rights. We wish therefore to question the character of universality of human rights advocates as a western court, entertaining as subjects only those who are male, white, and why not bourgeois, without considering the otherness of minorities that also through their struggles, emancipation make and unmake human rights.