Neil Stammers is author of Human Rights and Social Movements (Pluto Press, 2009) and an Honorary Research Fellow in Politics at the University of Sussex.
Human rights continue to remain unacknowledged as being at the heart of many social movement struggles. But like any language of power, they are subject to processes of institutionalization. Can they remain a source of empowerment? A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on Emerging Powers a