SIM Peter Baehr Lecture – Life Begins at Forty: Human Rights for the Future

IF 1.7 2区 社会学 Q1 LAW
M. Bachelet
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Distinguished participants, dear students, I am pleased to join you today in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Utrecht University’s Human Rights Centre. This celebration comes at a challenging time, when we are facing global threats to human rights across the globe. COVID-19 has shown us a world immersed in human rights gaps – and it has made them deeper and wider. The pandemic has exposed the weaknesses of political, economic and health systems, and laid bare systemic discrimination and deep structural inequalities everywhere, both within and between countries. At the same time, our world continues to suffer with climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. This triple planetary crisis created and sustained by human action – and inaction – is also directly and severely impacting a broad range of rights, including the rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development, and even life itself. One of the greatest uncertainties about these challenges is what policymakers will do about them. Earlier this year I told the United Nations Human Rights Council that ‘navigating a clear way out of the complex COVID-19 crisis, and towards an inclusive, green, sustainable and resilient future, will be the work of this generation of world leaders – or their downfall.’ So, in the midst of so many threats to human lives, livelihoods and rights, allow me to share with you some thoughts on how grave they are – and, on how, together, we can overcome them. Recent months have unleashed extreme and murderous climate events on people in every region of the world: monumental fires in Siberia and California; huge sudden floods in China, Germany
彼得·贝尔讲座-人生从四十岁开始:未来的人权
尊敬的与会者,亲爱的同学们,我很高兴今天与大家一起庆祝乌得勒支大学人权中心成立40周年。这次庆祝活动恰逢一个充满挑战的时刻,我们在全球各地都面临着对人权的全球性威胁。COVID-19向我们展示了一个充满人权差距的世界,并使这些差距更深、更广。这场大流行暴露了政治、经济和卫生系统的弱点,暴露了各国内部和各国之间的系统性歧视和深刻的结构性不平等。与此同时,我们的世界继续遭受气候变化、污染和生物多样性丧失的痛苦。这一由人类的行动和不作为造成和维持的三重全球危机,也直接和严重地影响了广泛的权利,包括适足食物、水、教育、住房、健康、发展甚至生命本身的权利。这些挑战最大的不确定性之一是政策制定者将如何应对。今年早些时候,我对联合国人权理事会说,“找到一条走出复杂的COVID-19危机的明确道路,走向包容、绿色、可持续和有复原力的未来,将是这一代世界领导人的工作,否则他们就会下台。”“因此,在人类生命、生计和权利面临如此多的威胁之际,请允许我与大家分享一些想法,说明这些威胁有多严重,以及我们如何共同克服这些威胁。”近几个月来,世界各地都发生了极端和致命的气候事件:西伯利亚和加利福尼亚发生了巨大的火灾;中国和德国突然发生特大洪水
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期刊介绍: Human rights are universal and indivisible. Their fundamental importance makes it essential for anyone with an interest in the field to keep abreast of the latest developments. The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR) is an academic peer-reviewed journal that publishes the latest evolutions in the promotion and protection of human rights from around the world. The NQHR includes multidisciplinary articles addressing human rights issues from an international perspective. In addition, the Quarterly also publishes recent speeches and lectures delivered on the topic of human rights, as well as a section on new books and articles in the field of human rights. The Quarterly employs a double-blind peer review process, and the international editorial board of leading human rights scholars guarantees the maintenance of the highest standard of articles published.
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