Precaria (country)
Precaria is a concept suggested in the framework of the international campaign of the non-governmental organisation TECHO, Un techo para mi país (TECHO), in English "A roof for my country", that designates allegorically an imaginary country which would be inhabited by all the poor people from Latin America, for pointing out the magnitude of this critical situation as opposed to the constitutional law of the region and the human rights system of international law (such as Bill of Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals). This term has been used by the Ambassadors of Precaria: the writer Isabel Allende, the current President of Chile Michelle Bachelet and Bernardo Kosakoff, former director of CEPAL, among others, to raise awareness of poverty in Latin America and to highlight the inadequacy of the indexes which assess the satisfaction of basic needs of the individual. Recently Bernardo Kliksberg, adviser of the UNDP and co-author of "The People First", co-authored with th ...
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