Family rights and the crisis of the welfare state

Abstract

There is a significant tendency to view the fight for human rights as a battle aimed at increasing, not so much the quality of those rights, as the number of rights recognised by municipal laws, conventions and international treaties. Often more emphasis is placed on lengthening the list of rights, that is by adding to the traditional rights, "new" rights, rather than on consolidating the rights normally recognised, by establishing a system of effective remedies in order to prevent their regression or their sometimes, inevitable violation.