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Make Up # 3

Maria Libreros
Prof. Elizabeth Bullock Human Rights 31154 Feb 19,2017
Assig # 3

“The politics of fatalism” By: Wendy Brown

It is clear that Wendy Brown in “The Most We Can Hope For Human Rights and Politics Fatalism” is interested in “ the pure defence of the innocent and powerless against power’, she argues that the human rights are contradicting because, on one hand they advocate for the rights of powerless, and for the defense of innocents, on other hand it has significant ways of power that The Human Rights is presented not only political but moral.

Brown also arguments that human rights are not only to solve problems against of power but, they also needs to be defended against their own power as she observed. She believed that human rights is a monopoly that organizes a political space. For example, in The Human Rights and The Politics of Fatalism, Brown explains that Human Rights is doing is to protect the rights of every individuals by condemning the abuses and alleviate or minimize suffering, but it did not provide details of the reasons that produce such abuse and or why a situation happens. However, if we don not understand how the violations of rights happens and why it happens, and where then we are unable to comprehend what we can do for, or how to stop or prevent that situation to be repeated in the future.

Brown agree with Ignatieff in that human rights can not be reduced to a pure defense of the innocent and powerless, what she means is that human rights and the state most emphasise in

the right of the individuo such as independent of culture, religion, beliefs, language and even more if human rights can appeal for hope then human rights can provide or enjoy an universal support as one intercultural and moral world. We should hope for a better world instead of created political, religious, racial, and so on conflicts that are the major contributors to human rights violations. It also contribute to human rights inequality, or how come an individual is treated in different way? Powerless? Again, Ignatieff and Brown points out that human rights should not focus only in political problems when there is people around the world who needs to be supported with dignity. I believe that in human rights we have still a long way to go in order for everyone worldwide to have the basic rights as human been, the right of shelter, food, and ever worse the right to have potable water supply.