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America's Quarterly Asks the Experts: What is the Primary Human Rights Challenge in the World Today?
Program Officer Felipe Agüero works in the area of human rights and citizenship in the Ford Foundation's Andean Region and Southern Cone office in Santiago, Chile. His grant making focuses on the enforcement of fundamental rights and helping to build democracies based on the rule of law and the principles of nondiscrimination.
Published in Americas Quarterly (PDF): Summer 2009
By Felipe Agüero
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Over the last few decades, major strides have been made in enshrining human rights into international law, in creating accountability mechanisms and, to some degree, in encoding these laws and mechanisms into national policy. Despite this progress, however, the lives of the most vulnerable people in societies around the world remain much as they were. For these individuals and groups, the integration of human rights into the law books has changed very little in their day-to-day struggles. Closing this "implementation gap" and making these rights real for people is the challenge that all of us who work to advance human rights must address.
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