I really hardly know where to begin after those wonderful presentations.

So I want to say I'm very deeply honored to receive this recognition from FAU.

An honorary doctorate from, I have now come to understand that an honorary doctorate

from a German university like this one is a distinction that I will treasure from

my whole life.

I value it particularly because it comes from the university in Germany, most committed

to interdisciplinary research on human rights, teaching and research on human rights.

And this is an institution with which I will always feel of a found connection.

Using the president's words, I will feel part of your family.

So thank you.

I want to make sure I thank people who are the University of the Son, particularly

FAU president, Honegger, Dean Kincheng and the De Kahnis does Ignatus, Kirchnetman.

I also thank the members of the Faculty Council and the Institute of Political Science for

the Nomination and of course professors, Biddle Felt and Kizmbaat.

A very, very special thank you to the two of you for this wonderful, Lodatio, but also

for the music.

I mean, this is above and beyond the call of duty to provide this.

And I also want to thank Marcus and the FAU Center for Human Rights for organizing

a wonderful colloquium yesterday to exchange research findings with faculty and students.

So I appreciate that you've given me the opening to my first slide here, which is to talk

about the move from the move from my book, Evidence for Hope, that was discussed, where

I really made an argument about the effectiveness and legitimacy of human rights movements,

institutions and law, in response to what I thought were criticisms that were not well

grounded in evidence.

But this new book that I'm talking about today is really, if you wish, my own critique,

but maybe it's better to call it my own vision of a way forward for human rights in a difficult

moment.

And so I advocate in this book that we need to embrace and patrace a framework that's

a framework about human rights and responsibilities and give attention to both, talking about both

rights and also responsibility for rights.

Now, first I know I have legal scholars and lawyers in the audience.

So whenever I talk about a new approach to responsibilities, I need to assure you that

I'm not talking here about legal responsibilities.

I'm not talking about writing new treaties.

Okay?

What I'm talking about is political and ethical responsibilities.

So it's a framework to think about how legal human rights, as we see, this body of legal

human rights, requires also much greater political and ethical attention to responsibilities

of all actors and not just states.

Of course states have the main responsibility when it comes to human rights, but it's not

just states that have responsibilities.

And on some issues like the topic for today climate change, unless all actors connected

to this crisis in our world, accept these political and ethical responsibilities for action,

the rights of all will be affected.

So now just as Catherine said, I like to talk about the history of human rights, but also

explain the history of my own approaches here.

And actually the American Declaration of Rights and Duties of Man, here we have the 75th

anniversary, also of the American Declaration of Rights and Duties of Man.

And the point I always like to make is that the American Declaration was actually the first

intergovernmental declaration of rights.