La justiciabilidad de los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales a través del desarrollo de indicadores: avances concretos en la Organización de las Naciones Unidas

Resumen  Los sistemas de indicadores en materia de derechos económicos, sociales y culturales han tenido un vertiginoso avance en los últimos tiempos en el seno de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas. La justiciabilidad de los derechos citados ha presentado sendos problemas debido a que el artículo segundo del Pacto Internacional de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales establece que depende de aspectos tales como los recursos disponibles del Estado, la progresividad en la implementación de políticas, entre otros. Por lo tanto, no se le han asignado a tales derechos, un carácter exigible y esta situación ha provocado que su vigencia sea limitada. Precisamente, este ensayo pretende demostrar cómo se ha revertido esta concepción y a través de los sistemas de indicadores desarrollados para diferentes derechos humanos se pueden obtener prestaciones mínimas, que deben cumplir los Estados, para satisfacer las demandas de alcance general.Palabras clave: derechos económicos, sociales y culturales, Organización de las Naciones Unidas, justiciabilidad, progresividad, indicadores de resultado, modelo de indicadores, desarrollo humano.AbstractIndicator systems in terms of economic, social and cultural rights have had a rapid development lately within the United Nations Organization. The justiciability of these rights has presented problems, mainly because of the second article of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights states that it depends on aspects such as available resources of the State, the progressivity in the implementation of policies, etc. Therefore, these rights have not been given a mandatory character, and this has led to their limited effect. Precisely this essay intends to demonstrate how this conception has been reversed, and how, through the systems of indicators developed for different human rights, minimum benefits are available for the States to meet the demands of general application.Keywords: economic, social and cultural rights, Organization of the United Nations, Justice, output indicators, indicators model, human development.

Modelos, lenguajes y abstracción (ING)

Every construction process (whatever buildings, machines, software, etc.) requires first to make a model of the artifact that is going to be built. This model should be based on a paradigm or meta-model, which defines the basic modeling elements: which real world concepts can be represented, which relationships can be established among them, and son on. There also should be a language to represent, manipulate and think about that model. Usually this model should be redefined at various levels of abstraction. So both, the paradigm an the language, must have abstraction capacity. In this paper I characterize the relationships that exist between these concepts: model, language and abstraction. I also analyze some historical models, like the relational model for databases, the imperative programming model and the object oriented model. Finally, I remark the need to teach that model-driven approach to students, and even go further to higher level models, like component models o business models.