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Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice

How human rights are (but should not be) used to racialize people and groups

Seminar

Date: Wednesday 16 March 2016

Time: 15.00 – 17.00

Location: Faculty Room, Building C, Floor 8, Södra huset

with Professor Elena Namli

In Swedish Entitled: Hur de mänskliga rättigheterna används (men inte borde användas) för att rasifiera människor och grupper

Description:

Human rights are meant to protect people's dignity and, as such, they are considered the antithesis of racism. At the same time, the language of human rights is used to legitimize the racialization of certain groups and individuals. How is this possible? Which interpretations of human rights facilitate racialization and which make it more difficult? In what ways does the 'juridification' of human rights contribute to the inability of human rights to make contemporary forms of racism visible?

Bio:

Elena Namli is Professor of Theological Ethics at Uppsala University. Her most recent monograph, “Human Rights as Ethics, Politics, and Law” (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis 2014), addresses the question of how legal, moral and political dimensions of human rights should be understood and related to each other. Her current project, “Critical normativity in law, ethics, and politics”, aims at a deeper understanding and critical examination of the respective views of H.L. Hart, Lon L Fuller, John Finnis and Joseph Raz on the dialectic between law, morality and politics.

Last updated: January 16, 2025

Source: Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice

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