The presentation poses two fundamental questions:
First, can explanation of these ‘cries from the streets’ be found in shifting patterns of global inequality; and in what some now identify as less about being ‘between-country’ inequality, than rather the growth of ‘within-country’ inequality?
Second, are recent whithering critiques against them correct in affirming the inability of human rights to mount any adequate responses to rising inequality?
The presentation offers a more positive message about how new avenues for human rights can and must be sought – such as the Sustainable Development Goals- in order to respond to inequality as a genuinely global concern and in which the human rights project itself may seek ways to become rejuvenated.
Presenter: Prof. Peris S. Jones, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.