How Wresinski’s Thinking Calls Into Question the Practice of Human Rights Advocacy, the Understanding of Social Justice, and how Institutions are Responsible for the Normalization of Poverty – Silvio Campana

Posted on 10 June 2017

Rethinking Accountability – June 9, 2017

Sivio Campana is a former human rights defender from Cuzco, Peru

Silvio Campana connects the thinking of Wresinski and the practice of human rights, showing how the principles of equality and equity do not reach those in extreme poverty as long as governments develop supplementary laws to fight extreme poverty – a “law for the poor” – different from the common law of all citizens.

Beginning with the thinking of Wresinski, Campana seeks to recover the fundamental principles of equality and equity, in link with the obligation of governments and the social responsibility of individuals and public and private entities, and taking into account the point of view, experience, and the role of the poorest in the construction of knowledge and application of human rights.