Human Rights
Taking Liberties, written and directed by Chris Atkins, 2007. Film review - Tom Jennings
Reviews this documentary lambasting Labour's assault on freedom.
Doing the Rights Thing
The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom - Slavoj Žižek
The anxious expectation that nothing will happen, that capitalism will go on indefinitely, the desperate demand to do something, to revolutionize capitalism, is a fake. The will to revolutionary change emerges as an urge, as an "I cannot do it otherwise," or it is worthless.
With regard to Bernard Williams's distinction between Ought and Must, an authentic revolution is by definition performed as a Must - it is not something we "ought to do" as an ideal we are striving for, but something we cannot but to, since we cannot do it otherwise.
Nicaragua set to outlaw abortion
Nicaragua is expected to approve a law that outlaws all forms of abortion today.
Leaders from the Roman Catholic church have helped to draft legislation outlawing abortion in all cases, including cases of rape and abortion to save the pregnant woman's life.
Against human rights - Slavoj Žižek
Alibi for militarist interventions, sacralization for the tyranny of the market, ideological foundation for the fundamentalism of the politically correct: can the ‘symbolic fiction’ of universal rights be recuperated for the progressive politicization of actual socio-economic relations?
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS
