Fundamental Rights

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Foreword

Research Structures

Energy, Environment, and Biodiversity

Humanities and Ethics

Culture and Education

Society and Development

Information and Communication Technology

Biology and Health

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Human rights: from health to new technologies

Human dignity, access to public health care, education, and new technologies are some of the subjects addressed by the Study and Research Group on Fundamental Rights. Co-chaired by Professors Ingo Sarlet and Carlos Alberto Molinaro, this group is connected to the Graduate Program in Law of PUCRS.

One of the ongoing interdisciplinary projects addresses human dignity in the 21st century. Law and philosophy professors and students at PUCRS and at the universities of Salzburg, Heidelberg, and Augsburg study the notion and function of human dignity and its implications in regard to novel technologies, including features such as autonomy, accessibility, and personal exposure. This project is sponsored by Probral CAPES/DAAD (Germany) and includes the exchange of professors, doctoral students, and postdoctoral researchers.

In collaboration with Princeton University (USA), the group mapped judicial decisions on the right to health. Including students funded by the Ford Foundation, this study was divided into thematic axes that included human dignity and the right to life, who is entitled to the right to health, jurisprudence criteria to decide on health care, and procedural mechanisms to enact the right to health. Even within the context of social, economic, cultural, and environmental rights and duties, research on the observation of judicial decisions in these subjects within the framework of the Ministry of Justice and the Observatory of Brazilian Justice was concluded in 2011. The investigators analyzed the judicial intervention in the effectiveness of the right to health from the perspective of democracy and the separation of powers.

Another line of research addresses equality policy and affirmative action in the socio-environmental state. The main emphasis of this research is on the identification of unassisted society sectors in regard to their access to education, health, and technology.