La Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella tiene el agrado de invitar al Seminario “Repensando la Indivisibilidad: Hacia una Teoría de las Relaciones de mutuo soporte entre los derechos humanos”, a cargo del profesor James Nickel, que se realizará el día viernes 29 de mayo, a las 15h, en la sede Miñones de la Universidad, ubicada en Miñones 2177.

El seminario se enfocará en un tema de gran interés tanto teórico como práctico: el de si los derechos humanos pueden y deben ser vistos como formando una unidad indivisible. James Nickel, profesor visitante en Georgetown University, y profesor en Miami University, es uno de los filósofos más destacados en el área de los derechos humanos. Su libro Making Sense of Human Rights (2ed.: Blackwell, 2007) es ya un clásico contemporáneo.

El evento se realizará en inglés, sin traducción.


Abstract
Indivisibility is the idea that no human right can be fully realized without fully realizing all other human rights. When indivisibility occurs it has the practical consequence that countries cannot pick and choose among rights. This article offers a framework for understanding supporting relations between rights and gives a number of arguments against strong claims of indivisibility. A central thesis is that the strength of supporting relations between rights varies with quality of implementation. Rights with low quality implementation provide little support to other rights. This is why early UN formulations of indivisibility said that it occurs when the rights in question are fully realized. Even if strong claims about the indivisibility were true under high quality implementation, they would be of limited relevance to developing countries because high quality implementation of rights is generally not an immediate possibility in those countries. Devel-oping countries do not run afoul of indivisibility if they implement some rights before others.