National human rights plans
Debates and reflections on Latin American experiences

Compilers: Victoria Kandel. Laura Gottero. Verónica Jaramillo.
Authors: Victoria Kandel. Laura Gottero. Veronica Jaramillo. Laura Pautassi. Eduardo CB Bittar. Hermes Corrêa Dode Junior. María de los Ángeles Villaseca Rebolledo. Enrique Azúa Herrera. Gabriel Adelfo Riaño Prieto. Gina Benavides Llerena. Javier Arcentales Illescas. Adriana Sletza Ortega Ramírez. José Luis Sánchez Gavi. Claudia Lovón. Cecile Blouin. Bruce Barnaby. Macarena Gómez Lombide. Ana Laura Piñeyro Jardim. Natalia Naz. Fernando Fischman. Wenseslao Martin. Jeremías Pérez Rabasa. Remo Carlotto.
The texts gathered in this book reflect the tensions and challenges involved in creating inclusive human rights public policies that respond to effective and impactful citizen participation. They also highlight the tension—once again—between the short and long term: the temporalities of governments and states. Furthermore, these writings incorporate an analysis of contexts and policies from a human rights perspective, revealing that, very often, plans of this nature—as tools provided by international protection bodies—are not fully implemented at the national or subnational level. Instead, they are frequently constructed as ways to appease international agendas rather than as means of engaging and engaging communities in collective initiatives for transformation. Therefore, we try to build interpretive proposals that allow us to critically analyze—and also strengthen—human rights plans in these ambiguous paths of formulation, implementation, and evaluation, because we believe that these comprehensive and cross-cutting policies are, or can be, instruments for building more just and inclusive societies, but they require long-term work and commitment.
From the Presentation
Working Groups Collection.
ISBN 978-987-722-887-8
CLACSO. UNLa.
Buenos Aires.
April 2021