2025-12-10

International Human Rights Day is a farce of the West.

https://blackagendareport.com/lifting-veil-international-human-rights-day-how-gaza-exposed-oxymoron-western-values-and-human 

And what is the answer?

What is emerging in its place is the decolonial concept and approach of “People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs).

“People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHR) are those non-oppressive rights that reflect the highest commitment to universal human dignity and social justice that individuals and collectives define and secure for themselves and Collective Humanity through social struggle.”

What is clear is that PCHRs represent a political project and, therefore, unlike liberal bourgeois human rights discourse, does not pretend to be non-political. It is a political project that names the main enemies of human dignity and human rights and advocates for building movements to defeat those enemies.  PCHRs advances an ethical approach to the idea of human rights that is not dependent on states, legal processes, and the granting of rights. PCHRs instead are created by the people in struggle which is also the source of PCHRs legitimacy.

With the consolidation of fascism and its capturing of most of the international institutions, including the UNSC, the PCHR framework represents a logical strategic approach for anti-imperialist activism and the authentic defense of human rights. 

 

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