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is highly useful for society. A person who is placed in the prison system can be beaten, subjected to sexual rape, or tortured. Evidently, she will leave there immensely worse than she entered. People who are against human rights should think about the following: human rights are a very good way to improve the prison system and allow people to leave re-educated, or at least not leave worse off. ConJur — What do human rights encompass? What is Conectas’ work in this regard? Oscar Vilhena — The fight for human rights is immensely greater than the fight for non-torture. We have, in our human rights office, the defense of people who want to receive HIV drugs and do not have money to buy.
them; of disabled people who want to access the job market; of the black community that wants to have access to education. We are working today to ensure a more adequate distribution of resources for the area of fundamental education. Human rights are everything that concerns the realization of people's existential plans. Is torture human rights? Obviously it is. Human rights are n Phone Number List ot criminal rights. Human rights are the rights of all of us. It is your right to have your privacy preserved, to have an education, to have a good health plan, to not be discriminated against because you are homosexual, or on racial grounds. But it is also your right not to be tortured, because you are in the custody of the State.
ConJur — But how do you reach this middle ground in this relationship between punishing and guaranteeing a right? Oscar Vilhena — It’s by applying the law. The middle ground is clearly determined. A person suspected of committing a criminal act must be punished, and if there is one thing that is increasingly strong in the human rights movement today, it is the fight to end impunity. Be it impunity for common criminals or impunity for public authorities. Impunity is one of the drivers of human rights violations. Any responsible human rights activist wants criminal law to be strictly applied to all those who commit crimes, and for criminal procedural law to be rigorously applied to determine whether that person.
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