TRAS SETENTA AÑOS DE VIGENCIA DE LA DECLARACIÓN UNIVERSAL DE DERECHOS HUMANOS

Abstract

“La Declaracion Universal de Derechos Humanos esindudablemente la expresion de la conciencia juridicade la humanidad, representada en la ONU y, como tal, fuentede un derecho superior de un higher law, cuyos principiosno pueden desconocer sus miembros.” (R. CASSIN) The present reflection raises the possibility of rehabilitating the natural law proposal, which has historically contributed so much to the development of human rights, applied to the text of the Universal Declaration of 1948. In any case, it would be a proposal inscribed in deontological and critical natural law (not ontological), where Natural Law is configured as a legal ethic and a parameter for assessing the legitimacy of positive orders. In this sense, the Universal Declaration is still the first and most significant document for the construction of a universal and planetary ethics