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Sumary
In this paper we provide a theoretical notion of the concept of human rights, giving primary
importance to issues of universality, in relation to the contemporary social context of
multiculturalism - cultural fragmentation and globalization. We believe that the concept of human
rights has its foundation, its deep rationalization, since a general and founding aspect of
mankind: dignity. While dignity is not a univocal term, but rather a polyvalent term, we will
attempt to conceptualize it the fully as possible, in order to increase its potential to establish
itself as guarantor of universality that we intend to human rights.
In a second part of the paper we try to understand the revival of certain discourses that seek to
delegitimize the Human Rights, by calling them "pro-criminal." It looks at how they arise and where
these ideas come from, with a denoted repressive mood. And what are its theoretical and factual
assumptions. To do this we will review the birth and decline of the modern nation-state, and its
current situation, to conclude by asking about the role of human rights in this contemporary
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