340 GENUINE PARTICIPATION MUST COME BEFORE ACCOUNTABILITY
1. In truly democratic societies, active participation is the means for people to voice their criticism, to open the gates…
1. In truly democratic societies, active participation is the means for people to voice their criticism, to open the gates…
A specter is haunting (not only) Europe: The specter of human rights. The MDGs never were a global agenda for…
A cautionary tale 1. Before the law, there is a sentinel. A peasant approaches this guard and requests the permission…
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. (Albert Einstein) This Reader is about human rights learning…
In political terms, the birth of human rights was a non-trivial achievement. The human rights principles about development have now…
-Human rights are philosophical; they are holistic; they are a secular religion with its own commandments. (Shula Koenig) But does…
If children were reared for profit (like young farm stock), giving them a diet below requirements-for-health would be financially unsound.…
Over 2.300 years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle said that “if we believe that men have any personal rights at…
1. In the language of statistics, uncertainty is a latent variable*(N. Bloom) …particularly when it is mainly statistics that lead…
-In our land of Oz, hypocrisy is without shame. Patriarchy rules. (JeromeKoenig) -Women are not ‘men of the feminine sex’.…