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Agua impregnada de poder: la pugna por el derecho humano al agua en un asentamiento de la Comuna 1 de Medellín
(Universidad EAFIT, 2018) Osorio Moreno, Santiago; Hillón Vega, Yulieth Teresa
Most of human rights were created after a social dispute, within which the case of the human right to water is not distant to this -- The latter seeks protection to the lack of potable water with enough quality for human consuming, and it is constantly employed by communities with this lack as a way for demanding potable water to the State -- Nevertheless, taking in count the symbolic function of rights and the social and political dynamics behind of this, the State has been using this right as a discourse to maintain its interests economical and political -- This being the case and keeping in mind that the objective of this research is to analyze the different ways in which the community and the State understand this human right under a specific case in Medellin, Colombia, it will be observed that it exists an interest of maintaining the marginal situation on human rights in which the community is at this moment