Human rights and interculturality. The challenges of a diatopic hermeneutic understanding

This article addresses from a hermeneutic perspective the challenges of the intercultural understanding-application of human rights, in light of the criticisms about its possible ethnocentrism and the challenges of interculturality that raise current political debates. Within this framework, a diatopic legal interpretation criterion is proposed, projecting the sociological postulates of diatopical hermeneutics, the dialogical tradition of anthropology and the topic legal. From there, a projection of meaning is made, following the hermeneutic circle itself, to propose a criterion that guides the intercultural legal interpretation of human rights.