Manifesto

Below is the video of the discussion at the debate marking the launch of the project at LSE.

These are the ten propositions which I have set out as my manifesto for the project.

1. Human rights are social democratic politics for our post-political age
   • T1 – Coming Out
2. Human rights need to be true even if we have to make them so
   • T3 – Making Truth
   • T4 – Doing What Comes Naturally
   • T11 – Don’t Be Too Hard On Hypocrisy
3. Realising human rights must always be emancipatory and securing them might sometimes be revolutionary
   • T2 – Taking To The Streets
   • T6 – Colliding Futures
4. Labour rights are essential to human rights
   • T10 – Up With The Unions
5. The great religions are more friend than foe to human rights
   • T13 – Faith Of Our Fathers
6. In taming counter-terrorism law human rights has the chance to renew its soul
   • T14 – Triumph Through Adversity
7. Rights are for more than humans
   • T15 – Beware Speciesism
   • T16 – Do Trees Have Rights?
8. The powerful should be made to need human rights but they should never like them
   • T8 – Down With Constantine!
   • T5 – Hatred Can Be Progress
   • T17 – Liberty – A Dangerous Ally Of Human Rights
   • T12 – Supping With Mammon
9. Human rights are for people not peoples
   • T18 – People Not Peoples
10. Lawyers are wonderful for human rights – but as supporting actors, not the main act
    • T9 – Resisting Law’s Empire
    • T19 – Leaping Out Of The Box
    • T7 – The Right Rights Model
    • T20 – Enforcement Is Nine-Tenths Of The Law