The international revolution of human rights starts now!
All over the world, inequality and poverty are on the increase, and human rights are being trampled on. But does this mean they are no longer significant? Or do they simply have to be thought anew in order to unfold their transformative potential?
Not only is Wolfgang Kaleck Edward Snowden's lawyer, he was also involved in numerous legal actions against Donald Rumsfeld and the Argentinian military dictators, among others. As a practising lawyer in worldwide struggles, for example against transnational companies, he outlines here a new, concrete utopia. He criticises the currently much too narrow conception of human rights and broadens the perspective by looking into the past and at interrelated struggles worldwide. So that everything doesn't stay the same and something really changes.
'When the history of our time is not written by the torturers and their apologists but by those who have not given up the promise of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Wolfgang Kaleck will be one of the most important authors.' Edward Snowden
