Rights Extension: Citizenship and Gender Trouble. Human Rights as world heritage.

Abstract

The objective of this short article is to visualize how the sanction and acquisition of certain rights have given greater citizen recognition to organized social sectors. They have gradually taken place in specific contexts and have always lef room for the emergence of new claims. The continuum is possible since the condition of human rights universality is a tricky naturalization of a particular state of things. At the same time, society is dynamically changing the ways in which it relates, making it more or less visible to understand citizen rights as humanity heritage. What happens to the principle of equality when faced with diversity? Specific cases of the so-called gay marriage, the law on gender identity and the "democratic debt" in reference to abortion rights put into discussion conceptualizations of rigid social images that do not accept equality in diversity.