Declaration of the National Interuniversity Council (CIN) and the Interuniversity Human Rights Network.

73 years ago, the Western world delivered a document of vital importance to regulate coexistence between human beings in a large part of the planet, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights- UDHR- This meant, at the same time, both a warning about the peak of horror to which we had arrived, as a reaction against the ideation and execution of the extermination of what was conceived as different.

The two world wars, the Armenian genocide and the Nazi genocide set a precedent that is not measured only in its magnitude on a quantitative scale. A repertoire of violent practices, created to dehumanize, are part of the contemporary history of crimes and cruelties committed.

The astonishment and indignation at what humanity came to live and suffer generated responses. On December 10, 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations -UN- made it known that it found in the consensus among the national States the statutory form to establish a parameter of dignity for all peoples.

The clear rejection of the use of violence to resolve conflicts between parties took time, all that was required to arrive at an ethical-political response that restores the lost sense of humanity.

And we believed it effective. We support it, attributing to the UDHR the character of a necessary and essential legal manifestation of rights. However, after more than seven decades, the use of violence by the Nation States has not ceased. Its forms have been perfected, intensifying its effects due to the task: the excessive and unequal appropriation of the vital resources of the planet for a few beings to the detriment of so many stripped of the minimum necessary to survive due to the increasing state of deterioration of the conditions of existence. : global warming, water pollution, food insecurity; erasure of identities, migratory crises, famines, extreme poverty for the same social sectors, which in the absence of minimum sanitary conditions feel the effects of pandemics with less margin to save their lives.

Eliminating and hoarding is a binomial that in common results in an effective result, lays the material foundation to produce the meanings that accompany it and constitutes a horizon of extermination. Framework and guarantee of impunity to violate rights, to suppress rights, to ignore those that are missing.

Removing sovereignty from humanity occurs as an exercise directed against an abject construction, leaving it available to be awarded to any being, seen as an obstacle, if it is considered interposed to the order of distribution of material goods established by those who benefit from it.

It will be a woman, a native resident, an LGBT+ community, a peasant inhabitant, a black migrant, a poor person, a person with a disability, a mestizo: the stigma of the constructed archetype will work, producing the minority. Serving the purpose, and whenever the occasion demands it, the concurrent and necessary step, that of covering him/her with negative qualities -born of racism-, to make discrimination, intolerance, mistreatment, mistreatment, persecution, acts go unpunished. , it is already given. And with them, the rupture of the possibility of recognizing ourselves as equals and as part of the same community made up of all those diversities that print different colors, sounds and shapes and that nourish our collective identity.

Due to its customary and widespread repetition, reaching the despondency of life, can only be the execution of the last violence on those and those who always lived within a socio-economic system that included them excluded from the goods with which the State was called Benefactor .

If we know, as public universities, what violence is, who exercises it and who supports it, put up with it, hide it, tolerate it, resist it, it is because they did not stop living within the framework of another horizon, producing meaningful consciousness, generously donating to all the valuable sense of sovereign life.  

We know the right, and the right to exercise the claim when, and for what is missing, because the struggles for life have not stopped. And that reminds us of who we public universities are. They do not let us forget for whom and for what knowledge is destined, the knowledge of global warming, food insecurity, the subjective effects of the camps on refugees, forced displacements from their own territory, land usurpations communities, river pollution, soil degradation, racist intolerance, overt stigmatization, humiliation, grievance. They won't let us look the other way while they spray the fields poisoning entire populations, even when they have newsmakers altering the facts.

We have detailed studies to enrich democracy, find the means to make it supportive. To support the inter-culturality that we lack in principles of law, to dream it fair, equitable, to carry it out, preserve it and improve it.

Today, this December 10, 2021 finds us, the Public Universities grouped in the Human Rights Network of the National Inter-University Council, seeking to update in the text of the DECLARATION (1948) the dream of equal coexistence. 

To rewrite in the initial norm, (1948) from the knowledge generated in public universities, other new legalities, with principles focused on the plurality of the community, that welcome the nations hitherto excluded, in an integration that does not erase or violate their histories and existing identities.

Overcoming the enlightened individual-citizen/state-nation worldview, and establishing a statute that leaves no margin or possibility of breaching it as a mandate, because the State effectively takes the unavoidable responsibility of action in accordance, and in unison: political, legal power and legal act jointly in it. 

That the constitutional range of our rights be inscribed in the parameter of human dignity achieved: free, equal and sovereign, and in this we are all fairly included.

Inter-University Human Rights Network December 10, 2021