The approach of grounding anti-corruption work in fundamental human rights rather than technical efficiency, centering dignity and justice in institutional reform.
Sor Juana's intellectual work consistently returned to questions of human rights and dignity: who has the right to education, to intellectual life, to self-determination? This framework reorients anti-corruption thinking. Rather than framing corruption as technical mismanagement to be fixed through audits and procedures, rights-based approaches ask: what rights are violated by corruption? Who loses access to resources meant for them? Whose dignity is violated? This shifts anti-corruption work from technical administration to justice work. A rights-based framework demands not just that officials follow procedures but that systems be redesigned to respect human dignity. This might mean ensuring public services reach all people equitably (not just those with connections), protecting rights to information and participation, guaranteeing people harmed by corruption have access to remedy, and creating systems that respect people's inherent worth. Sor Juana's life demonstrates that corruption isn't merely an efficiency problem—it's a justice problem. Anti-corruption movements grounded in rights language mobilize deeper moral commitments and build stronger institutional legitimacy than purely technical reform approaches.
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