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Stephen Hopgood

London
As seen in: The Conversation, New York Review of Books, AlterNet, openDemocracy, Qrius, Public Seminar, OpenGlobalRights
Emeritus Professor of International Relations, SOAS, University of London, working on international human rights and humanitarianism
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Misunderstanding the mass politics of the rights mission

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By Jack Snyder, Stephen Hopgood, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Margot Salomon
| OpenGlobalRights
The problem with Aryeh Neier’s argument is that, historically, there has been no way to separate efforts to promote general human rights from rising groups’ political efforts to protect their own social interests and values. Aryeh Neier has contributed a very revealing commentary on the tension between human rights and mass mobilization that goes to the heart of the debate on openGlobalRights.
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The Achilles’ heel of the European Court of Human Rights

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By Sergei Golubok, Leyla-Denisa Obreja, Laura Henry, Stephen Hopgood
| OpenGlobalRights
The whole European system of human rights protection is powerless when confronted with bad faith, and this represents its existential threat. The Council of Europe is the regional international organization with “maintenance and further realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms” as its principal statutory aim.
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Human rights: past their sell-by date

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By Stephen Hopgood, Kathryn Sikkink, Kristi Heather Kenyon, Salil Shetty
| OpenGlobalRights
It is activists, not states who will make a difference in future. But western-led rights organizations may have seen their day. Shutterstock/Artistic Photo. All rights reserved. We live in an era not of triumph, but of the endtimes for universal human rights. In our multipolar world of dispersed state and social power, the inherent limitations of the global human rights model championed by organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch is becoming painfully apparent.
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