Feeling human dignity and enjoying rights: perceptions of landless families

Abstract

This article is the result of the exchange of knowledge and specialization councils in Human Rights offered by the State University of Maranhão – UEMA. To this end, our general objective in this article is to present some fundamental elements of the conception of human dignity and its promotion from the critical perspective of human rights in dialogue with the concrete struggle experience of the Landless Rural Workers Movement – ​​MST. To do this, we use the critical theory of human rights in Flores (2009) and present elements about the aforementioned constitutional principle from the perspective of those who fight for Social Justice, seeking answers in order to know what leads Landless families to risk their lives for a piece of floor. In the end, I presented the MST Agrarian Program which, according to this social movement, is a concrete proposal for the elimination of social inequalities and democratization of land within the scope of the construction and declarations of popular agrarian reform and a sovereign, fraternal and just society in fact.