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 transformation and recognition agendas. It is a validation of human languages ​​and forms not contemplated by the "narrow universalism" of hegemonic or conventional human rights, which, from our point of view, they are because they derive from a Western monocultural origin, because they have been service of the double criteria and of the imperialist justifications in the geopolitical field, and for being constituted today as minimum denominators of law, although congruent with the global individualist, neoliberal and north-centric order.

Confronting this heavy legacy, which has greatly limited the possibilities of emancipation of these human rights, we try to show how, from the Epistemologies of the South, the struggles for the right to be human (the right to a dignified life and the memory of the widely silenced historical indignities) have to be founders of a renewed counterhegemonic conception of them. In a time that desperately lacks social transformation narratives, 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 translation work is the only one today alternative.