70 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: ECHOES OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW IN THE NARRATIVES OF RECOGNITION OF SOCIAL AND LABOUR RIGHTS AT THE BRAZILIAN FEDERAL CONSTITUTION

Abstract

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the milestone of the international human rights law, codified since 1945. It works as an ethical, legal and normative framework for several constitutions and State laws, as well as for regional and global human rights systems. In Brazil, the Universal Declaration is humanist and civilizing directives were encompassed since the narratives of the National Constitutional Assembly, therefore influencing the recognition of human rights at the Constitutional healm. In this way, the Federal Constitution of 1988 not only consecrates human rights of civil and political nature, but also social, economic and cultural rights, as well as labour rights and social protection guarantees.