Título
Derechos humanos e integración regional : estudio comparativo del Instituto de Políticas Públicas de Derechos Humanos del MERCOSUR (IPPDH) y de la Agencia de los Derechos Fundamentales de la Unión Europea (FRA), 2007-2016
Abstract
From the perspective of international law, the classical architecture of protection of human rights is made up of three levels: the international or universal level with the United Nations system, the regional level (like America and Europe), and a third level, the national level. However, with the development of regional integration processes, another level has emerged: the sub-regional level. Although none of these processes took into account, in their inception, the recognition and protection of human rights, while consolidating themselves, extending or becoming more complex, they witnessed the development and institutionalization of a human rights agenda. Given this context, based on the comparative study of two human rights institutions in two different processes of regional integration, the Institute of Public Policy on Human Rights (IPPDH) of MERCOSUR on the one side, and the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) of the European Union on the other side, this thesis seeks to investigate the relationship between human rights and regional integration processes from a sociological perspective and to analyse to what extent, addressing human rights at the subregional level reinforces the protection of human rights.