Balanço dos avanços conceituais e práticos e das limitações ainda existentes, de ordem legal ou política, à proteção universal dos direitos humanos, ressaltando a construção progressiva dos instrumentos disponíveis - as convenções centrais - e o papel das conferências e das cortes regionais de defesa dos direitos humanos.
Review of the conceptual and practical progresses and the restrictions that still exists, of legal or political order, to the universal protection of human rights, emphasizing the progressive building of the available instruments - the central conventions and the role of the conferences and regional courts of human rights defense

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as adopted in 1948, advanced an integral or holistic conception of all human rights, overcoming the ideological divisions of the world. Along the seven decades so far (2018), it has projected itself in successive and numerous treaties and instruments of protection, at global (United Nations) and regional levels, as well as in the domestic law of the States. The position of the human person as subject of the law of nations was thus rescued. The universality and indivisibility of human rights which found expression in it were reaffirmed at the I World Conference on Human Rights (Teheran, 1968), followed by the II World Conference (Vienna, 1993), which asserted the legitimacy of the preoccupation of the international community as a whole with the conditions of living of the population everywhere. Along these advances, new challenges have emerged, such as the social marginalization and exclusion of growing segments of the population, and

Tbe recent II World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna, ]une 1993) has proceeded to a global assessment of the international experience accumulated in this area in the last decades and has considered means of consolidating and rights by ali and everywhere. It has generated and unprecedented global mobilization and worldwide dialogue, thereby contributing decisively to the process of construction of a universal culture of observance of human rights.