1 Avoid bad binaries! The ‘West vs. the Rest’ (or, with a different choice of compass location, ‘Global North vs. Global South’) are impossibly elastic terms, resulting in categories for those terms with widely – even ‘wildly’ – divergent features in each. 2 Avoid lumping! Whatever about ‘the Rest’ , certainly ‘Western’ (scholarly) thinking is … 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
On January 30, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “Interaction between Law and Politics in a Global Perspective: Law First or Politics First” was successfully held. The seminar was chaired by Professor Peter Herrmann, a researcher of Central South University Human Rights Center. Evgeniia Kiseleva (a researcher of the School of Economics at the Russian … Read more
On July 26, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “Care and Respect: Research on Disease Management for People Living with HIV or AIDS in China” was successfully held. The seminar was chaired by Joe Finnerty, a policy analyst of the School of Applied Social Studies of University College Cork in Ireland, and reported by Xiao … Read more
The HRUG regular seminar on “What are Human Rights concerned with – the Universal Human Being, the Social/Class Question or Wokeism?” was successfully held on December 1, 2023. The seminar was chaired by Joe Finnerty (social policy analyst, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland) . Prof. Peter Herrmann and Associate … Read more
Topic: Community matters – law and pre-legal/informal settings. Presenter: Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz Professor and Principal Investigator, Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute and Center for Integrative Conservation, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 2023 Chinese Government Friendship Award. He focuses on the ecological habits of large mammals in Asia, working with local communities in remote areas of … Read more
China is frequently criticised for breaching human rights. As the concept of human rights is not a static one, but must be understood as dynamic, there is surely always a reason for critically reflecting on the human rights situation in the world, more concretely in the member states of the United Nations. In order to … Read more
The Central South University Human Rights Center Held the Symposium to Study the Spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Speech on “Unswervingly Following China’s Human Rights Development Path to Better Promote the Development of China’s Human Rights Cause ” and the Work Summary and Outlook Meeting On the afternoon of April 13, 2022, Central South … Read more
at least humans are not anything like perfect beings – well expressed by Brecht in his song on the The Song of the inadequacy of human endeavour. Letlhokwa Mpedi, member of the HRUG, will open another dimension to it, giving a presentation titled Posthumously conceived children in South Africa: A social security perspective Contemporary reproductive … Read more