Steven L. B. Jensen

Menneskerettighederne er kommet i stigende modvind som følge af en række nye samfundsmæssige megatrends, både globalt og i Danmark: Grænseoverskridende trusler fra terror over klima til pandemier. Teknologi og techgiganter, der ændrer radikalt på forholdet mellem det offentlige og det private rum. Voksende individualisering med nye forståelse af forholdene mellem køn, familie og den enkelte. Menneskerettighederne insisterer på, at alle er beskyttet – også de mennesker, vi ikke bryder os om eller er enige med. Menneskerettighederne kan støde sammen med legitime overordnede samfundshensyn og økonomiske prioriteter. Men menneskerettighederne er også selv præget af indre spændinger – f.eks. mellem frihed og beskyttelse. Denne bog analyserer nogle af de menneskeretlige konflikter og dilemmaer, der præger debatten i Danmark – med internationale udblik. Hvordan udfordres, tilpasses, afvejes og fortolkes menneskerettighederne i helt aktuelle konflikter – om efterretningstjenester, overvågning, flygtningestrømme, kunstig intelligens, religionsfrihed, køn og kunstig befrugtning? Bogen kvalificerer, hvordan vi forstår disse emner, og den diskuterer, hvordan vi kan håndtere problemstillingerne.

This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost exclusively on the 1940s and the 1970s - heavily privileging Western agency - Steven L. B. Jensen convincingly argues that it was in the 1960s that universal human rights had their breakthrough. This is a ground-breaking work that places race and religion at the center of these developments and focuses on a core group of states who led the human rights breakthrough, namely Jamaica, Liberia, Ghana, and the Philippines. They transformed the norms upon which the international community today is built. Their efforts in the 1960s post-colonial moment laid the foundation - in profound and surprising ways - for the so-called human rights revolution in the 1970s, when Western activists and states began to embrace human rights.

This book fundamentally reinterprets the history of international human rights in the post-1945 era by documenting how pivotal the Global South was for their breakthrough. In stark contrast to other contemporary human rights historians who have focused almost exclusively on the 1940s and the 1970s - heavily privileging Western agency - Steven L. B. Jensen convincingly argues that it was in the 1960s that universal human rights had their breakthrough. This is a ground-breaking work that places race and religion at the center of these developments and focuses on a core group of states who led the human rights breakthrough, namely Jamaica, Liberia, Ghana, and the Philippines. They transformed the norms upon which the international community today is built. Their efforts in the 1960s post-colonial moment laid the foundation - in profound and surprising ways - for the so-called human rights revolution in the 1970s, when Western activists and states began to embrace human rights.