Paper short abstract:

The purpose of the communication is to present research on human rights (economic, social and cultural) in a fragile state, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, as a key point in the dialogue between political power in a classical way and political power understood as articulation of actors public and private

Paper long abstract:

The purpose of the communication is to present research on human rights (economic, social and cultural) in a fragile state, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, as a key point in the dialogue between political power understood in a classical way and political power understood as articulation of actors of various levels of public and private action

This research proves that it is possible to collect data, treat them and construct basic indicators with statistical significance that unequivocally demonstrate the inequalities of access to HR at the level of the different regions of the country, in education, health, justice, housing, sanitation and means of subsistence (food).

This research project lasts 3 years and has already produced 2 books, the third one with the 2016 data scheduled to come out in February 2017. With these indicators, a methodology was created to collect information by a team of national inquirers, built an interregional global index that allows us to state which zones or regions of the country have more or less access to HR.

It also proves that civil institutions in this area of HR are able to engage in a dialogue based on concrete data with state power on Economic and Social Rights that gives them a broader role than the classic role of reporting violations of Political and Civic Rights