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- Title
HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN ANGOLA.
- Authors
DA SILVEIRA, MARIA LÚCIA
- Abstract
In this article, the author reviews the recent challenges to the human rights movement in Angola. On the national level, despite the approval in 2010 of the new Constitution of Angola, the government continues to persecute human rights defenders. The author tells, in particular, of restrictions on the exercise of the right to assembly and protest in the country. On the international level, Angolan civil society organizations have used international instruments to pressure for greater respect for human rights by the government. The article argues that even in a hostile context like Angola, human rights are an effective language for producing social change, particularly when they are used as an instrument of external pressure on governments to observe them internally, and when there are large social movements trained in human rights. Despite the challenges faced by human rights defenders, the author argues that the vision of a more just and equal country for all Angolans is what keeps the will to fight for social change alive.
- Subjects
HUMAN rights; SOCIAL change; CIVIL society; ANGOLANS; SOCIAL movements
- Publication
Sur: International Journal on Human Rights, 2014, Vol 11, Issue 20, p212
- ISSN
1806-6445
- Publication type
Article