Abstract
This chapter examines the different attempts of thinking about human rights not just from a moral or philosophical point of view, but as a type of politics. A contradiction arises within human rights politics when we fail to consider the relation between the normative question of what we want to achieve and the political question of who should do what. Using Hannah Arendt's formula, this chapter contrasts three ways of understanding the politics of human rights. The first two interpretations perceive human rights politics as a politics of implementation; these views reveal the problems that emerge when universal moral aspirations are combined with an insufficient conception of politics. The third interpretation asserts that human rights politics should be understood as a democratic politics of universalization, based on the political activity of its participants.
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