Los derechos humanos y los sociales, susceptibles de permanente reinvención: una mirada innovadora desde el presente en sintonía con el pasado.

Abstract

It is well known that Social Work defends the person’s autonomy thus favouring the incorporation in the environment and improving her-his opportunities. Nowadays, the word "innovation" acquires a key role in the structure of the States and political relations, particularly, in relation to intervention. Since human and social rights are always dealing with difficulties and structural pressures, those who defend these rights must have a constant innovative attitude. This attitude being the key point so as to achieve credibility within this current cult of the immediacy. So as to defend human rights, it is necessary to assume a humanising perspective having human dignity as referent, thus improving relationships in society. This is also found within the foundation of Welfare States, establishing rules that have improved the access to a fairer distribution of the wealth, targeting procedures and rights guaranteed in the public politics. A special way of looking is required to discover this line of continuity between past, present and future. The suggestions which are created "from the individual" orientated to promote social, economic, political and juridical structures "to the human beings" appear with an innovative potential, gathering a certain humanistic legacy that leads to build a more sustainable world.