Gómez Sánchez, Davinia2025-10-272025-10-272020-12-15Gómez Sánchez, D. (2020). Transforming human rights through decolonial lens. The Age of Human Rights Journal, 15, 276-303. https://doi.org/10.17561/TAHRJ.V15.581810.17561/TAHRJ.V15.5818https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/4102This article problematizes the Human Rights conceptualization embodied in the International Human Rights Law corpus. It considers human rights as a Western construct rooted in a particular historical context, located in a specific ideological background and grounded in a concrete socio-cognitive system. Thus, in disregard of features of non-dominant cultures, the mainstream human rights grammar became a discourse of empire. Building on TWAIL and decolonial theory, this article challenges that hegemonic human rights discourse while providing a justification for incorporating other conceptualizations of rights through an inter-epistemic conversation with alternative world-views.engHuman rightsEurocentrismDecolonialityAlternative epistemologiesIndigenous peoplesDevelopmentjournal article2025-10-272340-9592