Human Rights and the Biolaw Prospects: The Promotion of Social Emancipation Through Assistive Technology in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Eduardo Pordeus
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Direitos Humanos e Efetividade
• Texto Completo: http://www.indexlaw.org/index.php/revistadhe/article/view/130
• topic: Human rights, Assistive technology, People with physical disabilities, Effectiveness, State; Direitos humanos, Tecnologia assistiva, Pessoas com deficiência, Efetividade, Estado

This research brings reflections about human rights facing the assistive technology promotion's necessity in Brazil. Begins with: It is possible the complete social emancipation of people with physical disabilities or reduced mobility with the assistive tecnologies they need. Consequently, once they have acessibility and the physical mechanisms to make easier to have the right to freedom and the right to equal opportunities, the State would play his part in making the human rights ideology guided by social inclusion. There are vulnerable groups needing the protection that comes from the State and gives the right to live with dignity and also the access to public goods and services. It is recognized the new subjects of rights' appearance (e.g. people with phisical disabilities or reduced mobility); they are important in this consolidation process of democratic spaces and citizenship, because it is comprehensible the rights effectiveness when it happens by the State's obligation to promote them with the society support as a whole.