New Human Rights as a Framework for Political Design: Jean-Pol Martin and Robert Habeck

This working paper examines conceptual connections between Jean-Pol Martin’s New Human Rights (NMR) and selected public statements by Robert Habeck concerning freedom, ecological living conditions, social cooperation and democratic problem-solving. Martin’s framework identifies six equally ranked basic needs: thinking, health, security, social belonging, self-realisation and participation, and meaning. It takes life preservation as an overarching normative reference. The paper explores how this framework could clarify political arguments and support the assessment of public proposals. Its specific contribution is the combination of a bounded political case analysis, a transparent mapping of conceptual connections and a practical six-dimension assessment matrix. A hypothetical neighbourhood redesign illustrates how the framework can make benefits, burdens, participation and opportunities for revision explicit. Within the Zenodo corpus on Jean-Pol Martin’s semantic field, the paper serves as an application study connecting anthropological and systemic foundations with political analysis. Its account of novelty is relative to the materials examined, rather than an exhaustive review of all corpus publications. The analysis distinguishes documented source positions, comparative interpretation and proposed application. It does not claim intellectual influence, adoption of the NMR framework by Habeck or demonstrated policy effectiveness. Prepared by Jean-Pol Martin in collaboration with ChatGPT, which assisted with source retrieval, drafting, translation and layout.