The Future of Human Rights and the Human Right to a Future in Palestine
by Mudar Kassis
pp. 128-145 Issue 15 (8,1) – January-June 2021 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2021.8.1.7
Abstract
Reflecting on the Palestinian experience, this article discusses the requirements of ensuring a development of human rights that exceeds the growth of their abuse allowing them to play a role in reshaping the world through fostering emancipatory processes. It looks at the human rights system in the current global context, the caveats of human rights, their limitations, potential in their historic context, current conditions, and their perspectives concerning enabling emancipation. The article makes the claim that sufficient basis exists in the human rights concepts, system, and history to overcome the current limitations and counter their battering through their further development on a basis of human solidarity. Such a transformation can warrant a future for human rights in Palestine.