The (mis)appropriation of human rights by the new global right : an introduction to the symposium

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dc.contributor.authorDE BURCA, Grainne
dc.contributor.authorYOUNG, Katherine G.
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-05T09:19:17Z
dc.date.available2024-02-05T09:19:17Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionPublished: 18 May 2023en
dc.description.abstractThe meaning of human rights has always been susceptible to multiple, and sometimes conflicting, interpretations. Yet after several decades of efforts to develop an emerging, if dispersed and overlapping, normative consensus at the regional and UN treaty-system level, as well as within domestic constitutional and legislative settings, an array of efforts at concerted legal change in the human rights field has recently appeared in different parts of the world, on the basis of a supposedly reformed characterization of human rights, including in Putin’s Russia, Erdogan’s Turkey, Modi’s India, Bolsanaro’s Brazil, and the United States under the former Trump Administration, alongside developments in Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana. We describe these arguments and moves as appropriations—and indeed as misappropriations—when they use human rights language in the service of ends which are exclusionary, repressive, or anti-pluralist in character, highly retrogressive or reversing of previous commitments, and evasive of external monitoring or accountability. We argue that by invoking the language, tools, and framework of human rights to exclude or repress particular groups and individuals, while consolidating authority and avoiding accountability, they misappropriate a human rights system which—despite extensive contestation and critique—has been developed over a long period around certain core values including equal human dignity, inclusion, and accountability. The essays in this Symposium track a range of these actors and the strategies they are using to reshape the human rights field, examining recent moves towards transnational coordination of nationalist, populist, right-wing, and authoritarian movements. The analyses from various jurisdictions around the world focus on attempts to remake and—we argue—reverse a range of progressive achievements of the human rights system around gender, religion, property, culture, and equality.en
dc.identifier.citationInternational journal of constitutional law, 2023, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 205-223en
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/icon/moad019
dc.identifier.endpage233en
dc.identifier.issn1474-2640
dc.identifier.issn1474-2659
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.identifier.startpage205en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/76446
dc.identifier.volume21en
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dc.publisherOxford University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofInternational journal of constitutional lawen
dc.titleThe (mis)appropriation of human rights by the new global right : an introduction to the symposiumen
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