ABSTRACT
This chapter asks how threats to future people can be adequately incorporated in human rights – considering the risks and uncertainties that are attached to such threats. The article first develops a proposal that relies on a novel two-step articulation of the notion of a standard threat. Subsequently, this proposal is initially defended by showing its advantages over important alternatives (articulated by Stephen Gardiner and Henry Shue) and by answering a number of objections to it, specifically to its (sufficientarian) structure, in which a threshold has a prominent place. It is concluded that human rights are in relatively good shape to take on threats concerning future people.
