{"id":3922,"date":"2018-01-09T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T22:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=3922"},"modified":"2025-08-05T20:24:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T10:24:03","slug":"ambedkar-and-du-bois-on-pursuing-rights-protections-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/ambedkar-and-du-bois-on-pursuing-rights-protections-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambedkar and Du Bois on pursuing rights protections globally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/luis-cabrera\">LUIS CABRERA<\/a>\u00a0 |  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Therefore, Peoples of the World, we American Negroes appeal to you \u2026 No nation is so great that the world can afford to let it continue to be deliberately unjust, cruel and unfair toward its own citizens.<\/em><br>\nWEB Du Bois\/NAACP, 1947<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The world owes a duty to the Untouchables as it does to all suppressed people to break their shackles and to set them free.<\/em><br>\nBR Ambedkar, 1943<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this era of populism and ethno-religious tribalism, when battles for some of the most basic principles of rights and social equality must seemingly be re-fought daily, it may feel as though there is little time or energy left to consider issues of global justice, much less global institutional development. It also may appear that any dialogue on the global has been rendered moot in the current context, where for example far-right supporters of the US president deploy the term \u2018globalist\u2019 as a slur against advocates of even a moderate liberal internationalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet some of the most prominent historic champions of those most basic principles of equality and rights have looked beyond the state for support in promoting them within. In so doing, they have indicated an important global institutional imaginary\u2014a multi-level set of political institutions capable of promoting individual rights protections domestically, and of giving those facing domestic repression some meaningful place to turn. 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