The Crisis of Human Rights and Decolonization

Habib, Zaki

doi:10.22096/hr.2024.1973534.1528

The Crisis of Human Rights and Decolonization

Document Type : Research Article

Author

Zaki Habib

PhD candidate, Department of Political and Administration Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

10.22096/hr.2024.1973534.1528

Abstract

In the field of human rights, it is becoming increasingly more common to have a transdisciplinary approach to the subject as opposed to one that is usually limited to a legal analysis. It is thus necessary to conduct research on the decolonization of human rights. The purpose of this article is to bring about the political, economic and philosophical challenges to the way in which human rights and peace are theorized, all brought about from the perspective of the Global South. The first part of this article poses a dialogue between critical human rights theory and decolonial thought, delving into the history of colonialism and linking it to the current debates that take place in the legal setting of human rights. The second part of the article is an analysis on the coloniality of gender in the world with a proposal for a transmodern view of human rights and feminism.

Keywords

Decoloniality

Decolonial Feminism

Latin America

Middle East

Subjects

Human Rights

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