Los Derechos Humanos como marco cultural legitimador o movilizador en el mesofranquismo: el vigésimo aniversario de la DUDH en Cuadernos para el Diálogo

Abstract

In 1968, on the occasion of the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Journals Notebooks for Dialogue, one of the most outstanding publications of the time, published an extraordinary number, which under the pretext of reflecting on the UDHR, its consequences and results launched a criticism of the Franco regime centered precisely on the breach of these rights.The interesting number that we propose to analyze enters debates as important as the functionality of the discourse of Human Rights as a «cultural framework» potentially mobilizing against the Franco dictatorship; in the debate around the conception of first and second generation rights, as individual or «collective» rights, still unresolved and, given that Cuadernos claimed Democracy as the only possible system in which human rights could be developed and guaranteed, it included a reflection on it and the debate towards which model to evolve.