“On the side of practice – writes C. Douzinas – it is arguable that Home Secretaries should come from the ranks of ex-prisoners or refugees, Social Security Secretaries should have some experience of homelessness and life on the dole, and that Finance Ministers should have suffered the infamy of bankruptcy. Despite the consistent privileging of experience over theory this is unlikely to happen. Official thinking and action on human rights has been entrusted in the hands of triumphalist column writers, bored diplomats and rich international lawyers in New York and Geneva, people whose experience of human rights violations is confined to being served a bad bottle wine. In the process, human rights transformed from a discourse of rebellion and dissent into that of state legitimacy [7]”.
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