Özet:

Historically, the use of the human rights discourse and the human rights claims by the social movements played an important role for challenging the power relations and structures. The use of the human rights discourse is the expression of the political, economical and social demands in the form of claims for rights and is not merely instrumental but bears an operational importance, in Gramscian terms “counter-monic” feature, for legitimizing alternative values, norms and life styles. The aim of this article is to study the current counter-hegemonic substance and the potential of the human rights discourse for organizing and strengthening the resistance against the global injustice, bearing in mind that this discourse is currently serving as an instrument for developing the global hegemony and injustice. The article discuss whether the workers’ organizations in Turkey are making use of the international human rights conventions and the procedures put in place for monitoring the compliance to these conventions, through the recent case studies of Novamed and Desa struggles.

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