It is not only ideology that shapes human rights discourse but also reference points, 'best examples', cases that at...

Are we caught between support for liberal intervention which often has disastrous, unintended, but often foreseeable...

The ECHR still struggles to reconcile effective rights with the deep structures of a market economy.

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Liberal relativism that celebrates civil and political rights is a neo-colonial construct which should be understood...

From within the liberal imaginary, human rights appear to be something that ‘we cannot not want’, even though they...

The rights-bearing individual emancipated us from feudal absolutism in Europe. But that historical moment has passed...

Latin American constitutions are exemplary in going beyond liberalism in the way they formulate human rights. But...

Human rights are a hybrid of liberal law, morality and politics. Their ideological power lies in their ambiguity,...

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Are human rights nothing but liberal? If so, how do we understand mobilisations for human rights against neoliberal...