HRUG-CN Introduction – and the thesis The call for the right of a private sphere is one of today’s human rights issues, and as such becoming louder and louder. Leaving aside if this is justified • while people die as consequence of violent conflicts, • while people do not have access to clean water, health care, … Read more
The Economy … Hearing the term ‘economy’, we all have some understanding of what it is – it seems. There are some caveats, however. The meaning attributed to the term is very different. It reaches from the common persons understanding of having difficulties to pay the bill for food and heating – or being in … Read more
Today, the 10th of December, we can celebrate the anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: on that date in 1948 the document had been proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris (General Assembly resolution 217 A). There are as many good reasons to celebrate this as success as there … Read more
An HRUG-Open Talk had been looking at the developments of polities, politics and policies of the recent years, seemingly culminating in the election of Trump and the failure of the traffic light coalition in Germany. Peter Herrmann addressed the dark side of bourgeois enlightenment behind these developments, followed by a debate. See as well the … Read more
The 2024 China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights was held on 22 October in Berlin. Here are two video clips of presentations.
– many noticed it, though they overlooked that the tremor existed already for a long time and too many got used to the underlying tectonic cracks or fractures in soci(et)al structures.Both, the election of the Trump as 47th POTUS, also known as President of the United States of America) and the collapse of the traffic light … Read more
On August 30, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “In the Contemporary Context: The Essence of the Concept of Human Rights” was successfully held. This seminar was chaired by Professor Peter Herrmann (a researcher of CSU Human Rights Center). Mehmet Okyayuz (a professor of political science at Middle East Technical University, Turkey), and three teaching … Read more
Going there … some of the participants presenting themselves Mehmet Naima Peter
One can get easily the impression that human rights are in many cases on the top of the agenda of political and cultural debates, and apparently everybody knows exactly what the topic is about. However, much of the debate is a matter of naming and shaming, countries and regions standing against each other without considering … Read more
Obviously, democracy is a somewhat open concept, i.e. there are different concepts of what democracy actually is and how it works. One – and probably the dominant in the Western sphere – is that it is a representative polity, the demos, according to the Marriam Webster dictionary, understood as “common people”. In other words, the … Read more