Human rights and future people - Possibilities of argumentation

Questions of sustainability will be of crucial importance for the twenty-first century. But do we have to think about questions of responsibilities regarding future people in terms of human rights? And if duties regarding sustainability fall outside the scope of human rights, what would this imply f...

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Published inJournal of human rights Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 231 - 250
Main Authors Düwell, Marcus, Bos, Gerhard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.04.2016
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
21st century
Human rights
Sustainability
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Summary:Questions of sustainability will be of crucial importance for the twenty-first century. But do we have to think about questions of responsibilities regarding future people in terms of human rights? And if duties regarding sustainability fall outside the scope of human rights, what would this imply for the moral and political importance of human rights in general? This article investigates conceptually how we should see the relationship between human rights and long-term global ecological challenges. We will discuss how a human rights approach to questions of sustainability would be different from other approaches and what would be required to see those ecological challenges as human rights questions. We will discuss the possibilities for conceptualizing the relationship between human rights and sustainability. And we will briefly draw some conclusions in terms of topics for further debate.
ISSN:1475-4835
1475-4843
DOI:10.1080/14754835.2015.1118341