In
the context of this year’s Munich Security Conference, it has been said that we
are living in a “post-human rights”.
In
my opinion, that’s an unhelpful concept. It sends the wrong message. Human
rights should remain the very basic and indispensable foundation of today’s
politics. We might see all other conventions being challenged by different
types of strongmen in power. That’s most worrisome. It’s as serious move towards
the past. But, at least, human rights should remain as the last fortress, the
last strong tower of values.
In
the end, everything in politics and our daily lives is about respecting the
dignity of everyone, man or woman, boy or girl. If we do not firmly stand for
that, if we accept a “post-human rights” reality, even just as an intellectual
frame of analysis, we can say goodbye to the moral and legal achievements and
progress of the last 70 years or so. That’s not acceptable and it should not be
taken as a “modern concept”.
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