ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the tensions and imbalances which human rights must consider in order to establish itself as an effective counter-hegemonic grammar. The text focuses, in particular, on the need for intercultural translation between Western values and non-Western principles of human dignity. This involves addressing different worldviews in order to resignify the human as part of biodiversity, and nature as a necessary condition for a plurality of ontologies expressed through charms and ancestral references far removed from the modern Western visions, in which it materializes as an object. I engage in a critical dialogue with the cosmologies, emerging non-human rights and struggles (of indigenous, Afro-descendent and peasant populations) which expose the massive violations of dignities resulting from extractivist capitalism, as well as the way in which the right to development has overlapped, in the global North and the imperial South, with the urgent need to reverse ecological destruction.
