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To say that an enormous phenomenon has formed around human rights since World War II is stating the obvious. Yet we remain largely without answers on why this development has occurred. What is the contemporary fascination with human rights fundamentally about? What kind of attributes do people around the world invest in the concept of human rights? Building on my earlier research on political rhetoric, human rights education and lay discussions on human rights, I have identified two decisive characterizations. The first is the assumption that human rights have an absolute and essential meaning. The second is the fact that no-one knows exactly what this meaning is. This raises the question: how can we understand a phenomenon formed around such an intrinsic logical discrepancy? I suggest that human rights need to be approached fundamentally as matters of belief. I further argue that despite of the infinite number of such human rights artefacts as international conventions requiring routinized professional processing, activism rarely disappears entirely from human rights action.

‘Absolute and Undefined’: Exploring The Popularity of Human Rights in Finland