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[14th SNU Human Rights Forum] “Global Justice and Economic and Social Rights” with Prof. Cristina Lafont (Northwestern Univ.)
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2024-05-10
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We would like to extend an invitation to you to join the 14th SNU Human Rights Forum for a discussion of “Global Justice and Economic and Social Rights”, with Professor Cristina Lafont from Northwestern University. The SNU Human Rights Center is pleased to be co-hosting this SNU Political Theory Workshop on human rights with the Department of Political Science & International Relations.
□ Co-hosted by: SNU Human Rights Center
SNU Political Theory Workshop
SNU 10-10 Initiative Department of Political Science & International Relations College of Social Sciences
□ Date & Time: May 27, 2024 (Monday), 15:00 – 17:00
□ Place: SNU Social Sciences Building (#16) Room 312
□ Discussant: Prof. Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University, USA)
□ Language: English
※ Please be advised that the presentation materials will be sent to those who register in advance of the event. Should any individual wish to attend, they are kindly requested to send an email to register to politicaltheory@snu.ac.kr no later than May 19th (Sunday). The full abstract of the presentation can be found below the poster. The talk will comprise a 30-minute presentation and an hour and a half of plenary discussion. It is assumed that the majority of the attendees will have read the presentation and references, and the discussion will commence immediately after a brief introduction to the presentation. For more information, please contact: politicaltheory@snu.ac.kr
□ abstract
The protection of everyone’s economic and social rights is an essential component of any plausible theory of global justice. However, recent criticisms of the human rights project suggest that international human rights are not sufficiently ambitious or that they may be even detrimental to achieving global justice. This suspicion is supported by the fact that there has been a marked global increase in extreme inequality throughout the same period when states ratified more human rights treaties than ever before, including treaties that impose obligations to respect, protect, and fulfill the socioeconomic rights of their populations. Against these criticisms this chapter argues that the international human rights regime contains sufficiently ambitious normative standards to contribute to the achievement of global justice. However, in the context of a neoliberal global economic order, the state-centric allocation of human rights obligations tends to make human rights ineffectual in practice. On the basis of this diagnosis, the chapter analyzes recent developments in order to show that the human rights regime contains the necessary conceptual resources to overcome its state-centric limitations and that it can offer important normative support in the fight for global justice.
□ Co-hosted by: SNU Human Rights Center
SNU Political Theory Workshop
SNU 10-10 Initiative Department of Political Science & International Relations College of Social Sciences
□ Date & Time: May 27, 2024 (Monday), 15:00 – 17:00
□ Place: SNU Social Sciences Building (#16) Room 312
□ Discussant: Prof. Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University, USA)
□ Language: English
※ Please be advised that the presentation materials will be sent to those who register in advance of the event. Should any individual wish to attend, they are kindly requested to send an email to register to politicaltheory@snu.ac.kr no later than May 19th (Sunday). The full abstract of the presentation can be found below the poster. The talk will comprise a 30-minute presentation and an hour and a half of plenary discussion. It is assumed that the majority of the attendees will have read the presentation and references, and the discussion will commence immediately after a brief introduction to the presentation. For more information, please contact: politicaltheory@snu.ac.kr
□ abstract
The protection of everyone’s economic and social rights is an essential component of any plausible theory of global justice. However, recent criticisms of the human rights project suggest that international human rights are not sufficiently ambitious or that they may be even detrimental to achieving global justice. This suspicion is supported by the fact that there has been a marked global increase in extreme inequality throughout the same period when states ratified more human rights treaties than ever before, including treaties that impose obligations to respect, protect, and fulfill the socioeconomic rights of their populations. Against these criticisms this chapter argues that the international human rights regime contains sufficiently ambitious normative standards to contribute to the achievement of global justice. However, in the context of a neoliberal global economic order, the state-centric allocation of human rights obligations tends to make human rights ineffectual in practice. On the basis of this diagnosis, the chapter analyzes recent developments in order to show that the human rights regime contains the necessary conceptual resources to overcome its state-centric limitations and that it can offer important normative support in the fight for global justice.
