Direito em Movimento - Volume 16 - Número 2 - 2º semestre/2018

77 Direito em Movimento, Rio de Janeiro, v. 16 - n. 2, p. 72-105, 2º sem. 2018 ARTIGOS a reductionist conception to protect the value systems of a society or of a State and that they later evolved into a more universal conception (albeit predominantly mono-cultural and Western) which, for many years, made the autochthonous peoples “invisible” under a blanket of civil incapacity, conserving their image as wards of the State. The author mentioned recalls it is only after the First World War, with the institutionalization of international organs directed towards gua- rantees of peace and “in spite of the League [of Nations] not possessing specific attributes in relation to proper human rights, being the policy of mandates and from the system of protection of minorities practiced by the League that, incidentally, there was irradiated a supranational guardianship to protect people 6 .” However, the category of minorities “did not include indigenous peoples, since the relativist measures imposed by the social Darwinism in vogue did not even allow them this status. The categorization was only to serve growing international worry with the promotion of international standards for work conditions and well-being which were thought to be reliable for the administration of the most operative agency of the League, the International Labor Organization – ILO. 7 ” That is to say, international rights were to migrate from a relationship between States to insert humans into the system of concepts, and hen- ce came to encompass the ethical framework in the treatment of human rights. In this context, the minorities were incorporated and the idea of the self-determination of peoples was developed. Franco emphasizes that this “was what made constitutional texts open themselves out to a range of principles bearing an elevated axiological char- – Brasil, Guyana e Venezuela. 2012. Thesis (Doctorate in International Relations and Regional Development) – Inter-Institutional Doctorate Program in International Relations and Regional Development, University of Brasília/ UFRR/FLACSO, Brasília, 2012. 6 Idem, p. 23. 7 Idem, p. 24.