259 A TALE ABOUT INHUMAN WRONGS AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
Is it facetious to say that ever more people are ever more worse-off? 1. Human Rights (HR) provide an authoritative…
258 WHY ARE THE WOMEN IN CONSERVATIVE SOCIETIES SO CAVALIERLY EXPENDABLE? (S. Lewis)
-It is in General Comment 28 that we find the more precise guidance of what equal rights of men and…
257 WHEN YOU SEE A GOOD MAN, TRY TO IMITATE HIM; WHEN YOU SEE AN INDIFFERENT MAN, EXAMINE YOURSELF. (Confucius)
As opposed to a human rights activist, the indifferent person has been called a ‘passivist’ (Geoffrey Cannon) – The world…
256 HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT JUST A POLICY CHOICE, BUT AN IMPERATIVE: HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE US TO REALIZE AND ACT UPON THIS?
Human rights work ought to constantly look for political points of entry. 1. Human rights (HR) are global affairs, i.e.,…
255 IMPLICITLY, IN HUMAN RIGHTS PARLANCE, WE CONSTANTLY SPEAK OF SAVING THE PLANET FOR THE NEXT GENERATION WHEN, IN REALITY, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SAVING OUR GENERATION AND OURSELVES.
So, let’s stop talking about our future generations, please. We are talking about our own generation. We also have to…
254 ALTHOUGH ETHICS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE; HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH. (Part 3 of 3)
-In public health, we uncritically assume scarcity of resources without asking why scarcity. -WHO comes with technical advice, the World…
253 ALTHOUGH ETHICS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE; HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH. (part 2 of 3)
-In public health, we uncritically assume scarcity of resources without asking why scarcity. -WHO comes with technical advice, the World…
252 ALTHOUGH ETHICS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE; HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH. (part1 of 3)
-In public health, we uncritically assume scarcity of resources without asking why scarcity. -WHO comes with technical advice, the World…
251 HUMAN RIGHTS LEND LEGAL AND MORAL LEGITIMACY AND A SENSE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS.
-By applying a human rights lens, development is understood as unequivocally people-centered. -We know democracy, development and human rights are…
250 WHY HUMAN RIGHTS WORK IS TO BE SEEN IN THE REALM OF POLITICAL ACTION.
-We will succeed inasmuch as we display the capacity to mobilize collectively behind human rights as a political goal independent-of…