Varieties of capitalism had been often found …, or invented, depending on one’s standpoint: What some see as difference, as structural rupture is for others not much more than a tiny alteration, not making a real difference. However, one often forgotten question is to ask what capitalism is and in which way it links to … Read more
here some recent publications from the group/members Political Economy, Macroeconomics and Political System: General Theory and its Meaning in the Geopolitical Perspective on the Coronavirus Pandemic Author: Peter Herrmann For Professors, Instructors or Students interested in discounts, please click here for more information: https://novapublishers.com/instructors-and-students/. The Small Print of Human Rights: Experiences During the Pandemic from China, … Read more
We witness since about 2022 a kind of hype around artificial intelligence – apparently it started with Chat GPT. And indeed, it is technologically a fascinating development and hard to believe: the idea that apparently part of what is generally seen as essential for human being or humanness can be replaced by technology. Looking at … Read more
On March 1, 2024, the HRUG regular seminar on “A Crisis of the Political and Legal System Concerning Human Rights” was successfully held. The seminar was chaired by Joe Finnerty (a social policy analyst, School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland) and reported by Mehmet Okyayuz (a professor of political science … Read more
From January 22 to February 2, 2024, the 45th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council was held in Geneva, Switzerland. During the session, Prof. Mao Junxiang, Executive Director of the CSU Human Rights Center, along with the delegation of the China Society for Human Rights … Read more
China is frequently criticised for breaching human rights. As the concept of human rights is not a static one, but must be understood as dynamic, there is surely always a reason for critically reflecting on the human rights situation in the world, more concretely in the member states of the United Nations. In order to … Read more
“Art for Ethnic Minorities’ Rights” This 16th edition of the Virtual Exhibition of Psychology of Art shows examples of works of art that might promote psychological change in perceptions, attitudes and behaviours of defence and promotion of ethnic minorities’ Rights. The works were selected by students of a course in psychology of art (bachelor in psychology – Faculty of … Read more
current developments in China and some geo-political aspects, reflected in reporting of Western mass media a personal intervention by Peter Herrmann Obviously, it is difficult to assess from outside the situation of anti-Corvid policies in China[1] as it is equally difficult to develop an unbiased approach to the current polity and policy developments abroad. With this … Read more
In honour of the international day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia, the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (a centre of the University of Johannesburg) invites you to an online panel discussion titled ‘The Law and LGBTQ Rights in Africa.’ A fuller description of the focus of the panel … Read more
Obviously, there are different historical highlights, the last had been the foundation of the United Nations and then the Universal Declaration. Still, there is a history linked and we can look back from there, and forward too. One question remains usually in the background, it is about morality on the one hand and on the … Read more