CANCELLED - Can Universal Human Rights Address Colonial Legacies in the Global Economy?

Lecturer

Michael McEachrane is Visiting Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and member of UN's Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. 

Title

Can Universal Human Rights Address Colonial Legacies in the Global Economy?

Abstract

This work-in-progress makes the argument that the global economy is inequitably structured by colonial history, that previous attempts to address this at the UN level through rights to development, self-determination and the equal sovereignty of states has been conceptually inadequate, and that an alternative human rights-based approach should be developed. The talk will point towards a transnational/extraterritorial conception of human rights, and its basic principles of equality and non-discrimination, that may serve to correct structural socio-economic inequities among countries and people.

Information

The seminar will be held in English. 

Please send an email to concurrences@lnu.se if you want to participate via Zoom. 

Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies