La vigencia de los Derechos Humanos en Europa, a raíz de la crisis de refugiados de Medio Oriente

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyse the loss of validity in the principles of universality and equality that lead the international system of Human Rights, in the wake of the refugee crisis that arose in Europe in 2014. The main idea is that the massive arrival of refugees due to the violence in the Middle East revealed severe humanitarian contradictions in the European countries when providing the right to asylum, integration, acknowledgement and intercultural dialogue in favour of those affected by the war. Through an analysis of the debates that arose in Europe after the arrival of refugees to the continent, this article seeks to evidence the diminishment in the social support to the values of freedom, international cooperation, multiculturalism and Human Rights; as well as an increase in the xenophobic and isolationist expressions.