This book brings together a set of texts and authors that, in different ways, affect the possibilities of human rights as emancipatory grammars of human dignity. The proposed reflection is based on the idea that conventional conceptions of human rights need to be reinvented so that they are placed at the service of agendas of transformation and recognition. It is a validation of languages and forms of the human being not contemplated by the “narrow universalism” of hegemonic or conventional human rights, which, from our point of view, are such because they derive from a Western monocultural origin, because they have been at the forefront. service of double standards and imperialist justifications in the geopolitical sphere, and for constituting themselves today as minimum denominators of law, although congruent with the individualist, neoliberal and north-centric global order.

Confronting this heavy legacy, which has greatly limited the possibilities of emancipation of said human rights, we try to show how, based on the Epistemologies of the South, the struggles for the right to be human (the right to a dignified life and the memory of the largely silenced historical indignities) have to be founders of a renewed counter-hegemonic conception of them. In a time that desperately lacks narratives of social transformation, rather than seeing human rights as the saving grammar that survived amid the ruins of past utopias (Samuel Moyn), it is important that we understand that the work of translation is today the only alternative.