No human right is more important than any other
This December 10 is Human Rights Day, which is celebrated around the world. Every country should guarantee them.
"All rights weigh equally; the absence of one can disable the ability to exercise all of them," said Mario Luis Fuentes Alcalá, researcher of the University Program for Development Studies (PUED) of the UNAM, after pointing out that the only way to ensure inalienable guarantees is with the inclusion of all of them. The also holder of the Extraordinary Chair "Trafficking in Persons" at UNAM, exemplified that the right to education cannot be greater than the right to health, or to be protected against illness and death.
Nor can the right to a world without violence, with peace and security be higher than the right to a world without violence, with peace and security, in such a way that the absence of any of these guarantees can disqualify the others because they are interdependent, and one of their principles is progressiveness; in other words, one derives from the other, he pointed out on the occasion of Human Rights Day, which is commemorated on December 10.
The also academic of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS), assured that the country has, from the first article of the Magna Carta, the obligation to guarantee and recognize the prerogatives inherent to each individual: universal, interdependent, and with the referred progressivity. "We must not fall into the trap that one group is before another, but obviously girls, women, people with disabilities, the elderly, have our attention; we must have a horizon that the only way to guarantee human rights is with the insertion of all," he stressed.
Referring to women, the university academic stressed that during the health emergency, "they have seen their ability to exercise their rights increasingly broken", due to the requirement to stay at home, take care of their children and the sick; in addition, they had to absorb the drop in income, which also had an impact on the youngest women.
Challenges
Mario Luis Fuentes Alcalá, also President of the Board of Trustees of the University Board of Trustees of UNAM, said that universities have a greater mandate: to work and fight so that in Mexico all rights are in force for everyone. "I believe that this is the deepest meaning of the university effort, not only to demand compliance but to try to do what is necessary so that the State guarantees them," he concluded.
It should be noted that this commemoration is celebrated every December 10, the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a historic document that proclaims the inalienable guarantees to which every person is entitled as a human being, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, political or another opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or another status. It is available in more than 500 languages and is the most widely translated document in the world.
