[제14차 서울대학교 인권포럼 · 서울대학교 정치사상워크숍]
[14th SNU Human Rights Forum · SNU Political Theory Workshop]

Global Justice and Economic and Social Rights ﾠ

Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University) Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of Philosophy 

• 일시: 2024년 5월 27일 월요일 오후 3시 ~ 5시
• 장소: 서울대학교 사회과학대학 (16동) 교수회의실 (312호)ﾠ

The protection of everyone’s economic and social rights is an essential component of any plausible theory of global justice. However, recent criticisms of the human rights project suggest that international human rights are not sufficiently ambitious or that they may be even detrimental to achieving global justice. This suspicion is supported by the fact that there has been a marked global increase in extreme inequality throughout the same period when states ratified more human rights treaties than ever before, including treaties that impose obligations to respect, protect, and fulfill the socioeconomic rights of their populations. Against these criticisms this chapter argues that the international human rights regime contains sufficiently ambitious normative standards to contribute to the achievement of global justice. However, in the context of a neoliberal global economic order, the state-centric allocation of human rights obligations tends to make human rights ineffectual in practice. On the basis of this diagnosis, the chapter analyzes recent developments in order to show that the human rights regime contains the necessary conceptual resources to overcome its state-centric limitations and that it can offer important normative support in the fight for global justice.

• 참가신청 및 문의 politicaltheory@snu.ac.kr
• 공동주최: 서울대학교 인권센터, 서울대학교 정치사상워크숍, 서울대학교 정치외교학부 10-10 사업단