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The construction of identity and rights: race and gender in Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2014

Daniela Ikawa
Daniela Ikawa*
Affiliation:
Adjunct Professor, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University(New York). Email: di28@columbia.edu; Program Officer, International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights(New York). Email: dikawa@escr-net.org
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di28@columbia.edu
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Abstract

The recognition of individual identity as multilayered and circumstance based leads to a shift from a theory of general rights to a theory of specific rights connected to structural social change. General rights, such as the right to health and the right to work, must be interpreted according to the circumstance of differently situated women, so that rights are specific enough to ensure that they are actually enforced for different groups, including groups that, due to discrimination, are made invisible to the law. In this sense, the different circumstances that help develop the identity of women, Black women or poor Black women in Brazil will be studied to give specific content to general rights recognised by Brazilian law and by International human rights law.

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Research Article
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International Journal of Law in Context , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 2014 , pp. 494 - 506
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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