Abstract

VALBUENA-LATORRE, PAOLA  and  BADILLO-SARMIENTO, REYNELL. The Emergence of the Right to Food: Latin America in the Construction of the International Human Rights Regime. Rev. Derecho Estado [online]. 2022, n.51, pp.359-387.  Epub June 06, 2022. ISSN 0122-9893.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n51.11.

This article reconstructs the origin and the trajectory of the right to food from a constructivist perspective on the emergence of norms. To this end, a press review was conducted using the Google News archive, the speeches of delegations during the decision-making moments of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were analyzed, and the process of including the right to food within this international document was reconstructed. The authors conclude that the role of Latin American delegations in the construction of the international human rights regime was crucial and, therefore, question the idea that its origin was in the matrix of the hegemonic countries of the international system. Likewise, they question the sequential vision of the stages of creation of a norm and the impossibility of observing trajectories after its process of creation. In this sense, this article, through a case study, not only contributes to the understanding of the right to food, but also works to question the dominant theory on the emergence of norms and both realistic and critical visions of human rights.

Keywords : Emergence of norms; right to food; Latin America; International human rights regime.

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