The promise of human rights to protect people everywhere from abuses and injustices and to enable them to live in equal dignity remains unfulfilled for most of the world’s population despite the growth of human rights instruments, institutions and organizations.
Furthermore, skepticism in academic discourses and the open rejection of human rights by many states and political actors are on the rise. The Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights” therefore seeks to revisit the potential of human rights as a universalistic framework for addressing fundamental changes that shape our times in political, economic, social, ecological, and technological contexts.
