Via the platform of the Human Rights Centre at the Law School of Central South University, Changsha, under the patronage of Junxian Mao, founder and head of the Human Rights Centre at the School of Law, Central South University, Changsha, PRC) a group of international scholars have gathered to research Human Rights issues emerging from recent developments of the global world system. The following have been key considerations in this process:
- while Human Rights are purportedly universal, a diversity of perspectives now interrogates the possible “Western hegemony” of this universality;
- given that the character of globalisation that shaped the era of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has changed markedly, in particular with the emergence of post-colonial perspectives;
- while global prosperity has increased immensely, we are witnessing continuing poverty and precarity (which climate and pandemic crises are likely to exacerbate);
- whereas the question of Human Rights is directed on tackling ‘existential’ questions of extreme poverty, increased global prosperity broadens the understanding of poverty and precarity to embrace issues of cohesion, inclusion, and empowerment.
The work of the group is geared to develop further the theory of Human Rights, envelope an understanding that allows to deal with the ambiguities of a concept that had been established middle of the last century in the North-Western Hemisphere of the globe.
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