THE CONSCIOUS AND SOLIDARY CONSUMPTION: HUMAN RIGHTS, ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Consumption is one of the aspects linked to economic activity and is the way in which the human being acquires or uses goods or services. The choice of what and how we consume leads to many implications, from the appreciation of cultural identity even to the way a society develops. We are products and part of the process of choice of what we consume. Considering that the right to development is essentially a right connected  with the idea of allowing people the broad flowering of their capabilities you can understand how much an ethical and solidarity consumption is important for it to be appropriate to talk of a real right to development. In this context, ecological and social movements show how important spaces of struggle and awareness about environmental conservation and consumer awareness aimed at a human and sustainable development. A horizon of possibilities to promote the main political and social project of modernity — the sustainable development. This work has qualitative character and the construction of the data will be conducted on the basis of literature. The literature review will provide us with the necessary input to understand the concepts, principles and legal institutions that structure the object.