Derechos Humanos y empresas y Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos. Reflexiones y diálogos

Abstract

This book is a collective work that reflects the development of humanrights in the country, specifically at the Faculty of Jurisprudence of theUniversidad del Rosario. The purpose of educating and researching in humanrights is clear if we want to live in a more just and equitable society, inorder to achieve peace in Colombia, as well as to ensure that these rights havegreater protection in the region. In this sense, the two purposes and stagesrelated to the project of creating an Annual Congress of International Law atthe Faculty were achieved. On the one hand, it addressed the need for acollective work of international projection that presented, from differentpositions and schools, new debates regarding the evolutionary relationshipbetween companies and human rights, as well as recent debates about the scopeand effectiveness of the jurisprudence and operation of the Inter-AmericanSystem. On the other hand, it met the need of establishing, as an epistemiccommunity, a regional forum, with its center of activity in Colombia, for thedevelopment and promotion of the most important debates in international law.