Why 4 Generations of Rights?

Expanding from fundamental rights and freedoms to social rights, followed by solidarity rights that are not limited to human existence but also include nature and other living beings with whom we share the planet, then finally to bioethics and to our commonality in the digital world. This makes us realise that rights emerge as a language of intersubjectivity or inter-citizenship that goes far beyond their individual character. As founding members, when choosing the name “Association for Social Research on the Four Generations of Rights”, we considered it important to emphasise both the history of the struggles that brought these rights to life and how each generation of rights following the previous one actually complements and recontextualises the rights previously recognised. 

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