Assignment 03: The politics of fatalism
I personally agree with Wendy Brown entirely that human right activism is basically beyond championing for innocent, powerless and defense in the society because, I personally understand human right as an agency has a role to play especially when it entirely comes with the rights of all human beings. The rights are basically beyond defense, innocence and powerless. Indeed, Wendy has given various evidences supporting her claim. Firstly, attainment of social and economic security is a fundamental thing that needs to be championed by Human right activist and in so doing political and civil can easily be realized. Usually, there are things which are actually forgotten in a number of occasions. In fact, there are many concerns which needs to be addressed and when this is done then conditions are laid for political engagement and then finally economic improvement achieved. In other words, things like food, shelter and clothing are very much fundamental and they need to be catered for the purpose of economic good.
Secondly, human right is actually a language of empowerment in the sense that through the agency mandated people can easily protect themselves from injustices. It should not be forgotten that many people face many challenges in society fundamentally those things which are contrary to the law. Since in most cases you find that, they are poor and they cannot be able to defend themselves, they simply let go. This is where the human right agency should come out and give empowerment such that justice actually prevail no matter what circumstances.
Lastly, it basically will be like a basis for things like deliberations, conflict, argument and contentions. Human right according to Brown will basically give a background to bringing solutions to those things which the government of the land has taken a hard line to solve. I mean, for instance, you may find strikes taking place by workers demanding something that the government cannot be able to guarantee them. This means that the human right agency will act as the one to ensure there is a solution between the two parties. There are other many more contentions that can also arise in regards to evasion of justice because you are powerful and the sought and therefore the human right must also ensure that it proves that it is necessary for justice to take its course. If this is not done then this will imply that there is a serious constitutional crisis which needs to be taken serious.
