ABSTRACT
Human rights are values that deepen the chance of a better life. With ‘an agenda’ for individual and social improvement, they herald opportunities for freedom, dignity, respect, peace and social justice. These hopeful ‘principles of social protection . . . provoke action’ towards a world that has not yet emerged (Moyn 2010, p. 1). Human rights are, and will always be, a work in progress. Their promise as a source of protection has to be continually articulated, enacted, remembered and fought over.
