Emerging Powers and Human Rights

By: Harsh Mander
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With the world facing increasing division and hatred, the human rights community must face this lack of compassion with solidarity.

By: Beth A. Simmons
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Eric Posner argues that the proliferation of human rights norms is essentially useless, but his argument ignores key evidence to the contrary.

By: Eric Posner
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The international human rights regime is too expansive in scope and feeble in enforcement to have any real impact; good government can’t be reduced to a set of ...

By: Stanley Ibe
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The argument that socio-economic rights are not “real” human rights is far too simplistic. While the phrase “progressive realization” gives many governments an ...

By: Pedro R. Pizano
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Social and economic rights are laudable goals, but qualifying them as “rights” may actually do more harm than good.

By: Emilie Hafner-Burton
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By: José-Manuel Barreto

"Who defines the concept of human rights?" Stephen Hopgood asks. The answer will come from a new North-South dialogue building on the foundations of the dominant ...

By: Jack Snyder

The problem with Aryeh Neier’s argument is that, historically, there has been no way to separate efforts to promote general human rights from rising groups’ political ...

By: Stephen Hopgood

The author acknowledges his supporters, but he answers his critics. It is political leverage, not human rights, that make things happen. The wealthy and influential ...

By: César Rodríguez-Garavito
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César Rodríguez-Garavito responds to Stephen Hopgood and Aryeh Neier, criticising both sides of the debate for an all too simplistic view of the actors, the content ...

By: Margot Salomon

Drawing on the central practices and aims of a traditional human rights organization as described by Aryeh Neier in his account of Human Rights Watch, let me respond, ...

By: Aryeh Neier

The founder of Human Rights Watch tells Stephen Hopgood and James Ron that this organisation is globalizing itself; though it has a long way to go, over time it ...

By: Ignacio Saiz & Alicia Ely Yamin

The distinction that Aryeh Neier draws between human rights and social justice is premised on a limited notion of what constitutes “power”, argue Ignacio Saiz and ...

By: David Petrasek
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Expecting new global powers to promote human rights abroad via the United Nations assumes that they will play by the old rules and - if such pressure is to be effective ...

By: Kenneth Roth & Peggy Hicks
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Resentment of the west is making emerging powers hold back when they could be using their strengths and experiences to challenge the world’s abusive regimes.

By: Jack Snyder
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The road to greater ownership of human rights by emerging powers is a bumpy one. But it will lead to a more real, and less utopian approach.

By: Stephen Hopgood
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It is activists, not states who will make a difference in future. But western-led rights organizations may have seen their day.

By: James Ron & David Crow & Shannon Golden
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Using cutting-edge human rights perception polls, the authors explore links between social class and domestic human rights movements in Mexico, Colombia, Morocco, ...

By: Salil Shetty
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Emerging powers are starting to wield some clout on global rights but they need to do much more says Amnesty International’s Secretary General.