The international relations began to reflect more intensively since the 1990s the requirement of moralization of the public sphere. The theme of ethics - often present on the internal political agendas - gets into the action programs of multilateral organizations and becomes strongly requested from public agents. On the internal and external field as well the contemporary ethical agenda takes the human rights as its substantial reference, as the leading values for a valuable private and public behavior, including the international organizations. For such a historical trend some examples may be mentioned: the internal and external Brazilian policy on human rights, the organizing tendency of the regional blocks, as the European Union, and the "social clause" considered as indispensable to the economic, commercial and financial relations.
Ethics; Human rights; Moral agenda
