Raphael Okitafumba Lokola
This paper addresses the betrayal of the original intuition behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948. The belief of every human being’s inherent dignity and inalienable human rights encapsulates this intuition. Today, however, human dignity and inalienable human rights are grossly violated in geographical and existential peripheries by the same institution that has been assigned the noble mission of protecting and promoting them. My analysis will proceed in three steps. First, I will describe the context of the siege of human rights. Second, I will identify some causal factors that encourage this siege. Third and lastly, I will envisage perspectives that can halt the siege of human rights in geographical and existential peripheries.
