Conceptual framework This document analyzes different aspects of inequality and gender violence, public policies, and specialization in terms of institutional intervention to respond to different vulnerabilities. In order to explain the origin of some practices, analyze the results and clarify definitions of terms that will be used in the document, the conceptual framework used is presented below.
Human Rights In December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly promulgated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Thirty articles were expressed with the aim of ensuring that all people, from birth, can count on basic civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, without exception. The declaration has been the most important reference document for the drafting of the constitutions of many States. According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, human rights are defined as “rights inherent to all of us, regardless of nationality, gender, ethnic or national origin, color, religion, language or any other status”. Human rights have six fundamental characteristics: universal, inalienable, indivisible, indivisible, interdependent, equal, and non-discriminatory (OHCHR, n.d.)
Gender
According to Enmakunde (2015), gender is socialized in a historical process that takes place at different levels and institutions (State, family, formal education, media, labor market, laws,
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GENDER ANALYSIS OF THE ACCOMPANIMENT PROVIDED BYPASTORAL SOCIAL CÁRITAS ECUADOR HUMAN MOBILITY
The concept of gender began to be used in the 1970s when this category was proposed to explain the social construction of women’s subordination, and to debate those traditionalist positions where it was conceived that women’s disadvantages were based on biological differences. Gender analysis seeks to explain how biological differences translate into inequality and reproduce power relations between men and women. In other words, gender is the set of beliefs, values, personal and collective characteristics, attitudes, and activities that are assigned to men and women through a process of social construction and habits.
