human-rightism
nounEtymology From human rights + -ism, calque of French droits-de-l'hommisme.
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Derogatory A political philosophy that focuses on human rights.
- With the notion of human-rightism, Pellet (2000) tried to warn of the costs and dangers of the slippery slope of activism within the arena of international human rights law. ‘Human-rightism’ was immediately ascribed pejorative meanings and used to express different forms of critique when it came to human rights.2020, Lea David, The Past Can't Heal Us, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31:
- Related terms
- human-rightist