On August 30, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “In the Contemporary Context: The Essence of the Concept of Human Rights” was successfully held. This seminar was chaired by Professor Peter Herrmann (a researcher of CSU Human Rights Center). Mehmet Okyayuz (a professor of political science at Middle East Technical University, Turkey), and three teaching … Read more
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One can get easily the impression that human rights are in many cases on the top of the agenda of political and cultural debates, and apparently everybody knows exactly what the topic is about. However, much of the debate is a matter of naming and shaming, countries and regions standing against each other without considering … Read more
Obviously, democracy is a somewhat open concept, i.e. there are different concepts of what democracy actually is and how it works. One – and probably the dominant in the Western sphere – is that it is a representative polity, the demos, according to the Marriam Webster dictionary, understood as “common people”. In other words, the … Read more
On January 30, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “Interaction between Law and Politics in a Global Perspective: Law First or Politics First” was successfully held. The seminar was chaired by Professor Peter Herrmann, a researcher of Central South University Human Rights Center. Evgeniia Kiseleva (a researcher of the School of Economics at the Russian … Read more
Should there be a question mark or an exclamation mark. In the e-newsletter of the German ZeitOnline, published on the 6th of September 2024, we read – here translated: Joe Biden disappeared on a beach holiday for a fortnight without anyone really noticing his absence. Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and their respective partners are travelling the … Read more
On July 26, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “Care and Respect: Research on Disease Management for People Living with HIV or AIDS in China” was successfully held. The seminar was chaired by Joe Finnerty, a policy analyst of the School of Applied Social Studies of University College Cork in Ireland, and reported by Xiao … Read more
Probably many came across the widespread sentence: do not believe any statistic that you haven’t forged yourself. It is commonly attributed to Winston Churchill, while in fact, or better to say: in Wikipedia’s terms (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_geflügelter_Worte/T#Traue_keiner_Statistik,_die_du_nicht_selbst_gefälscht_hast.) there seems to be no evidence, and it may even be that it is a somewhat “anti-Churchillian sentence”. Already the … Read more
The HRUG regular seminar on “What are Human Rights concerned with – the Universal Human Being, the Social/Class Question or Wokeism?” was successfully held on December 1, 2023. The seminar was chaired by Joe Finnerty (social policy analyst, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland) . Prof. Peter Herrmann and Associate … Read more
On the 1st of August thousands of people gathered in Poland, 80 years after the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The German Bundespraesident, Mr. Steinmeier, asked the Polish citizenry for apologies – for something that cannot be excused, while we may contest if today’s generation is “responsible” for what happened those days, asking for apologies for something that … Read more