229 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
Allow me to present these reflections in the form of bullets • A truly women-centered approach to human rights (HR)…
228 FOCUSING ON EQUALITY OF RESULTS (BEYOND EQUALITY OF ACCESS) IS THE NEEDED STEP TOWARDS SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THUS TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS.
Communities –and not academics setting cut-off points– are the best qualified to identify the poor among themselves thus judging relative…
227 DISPARITY REDUCTION, NATIONAL BUDGETS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The availability and allocation of budgetary resources says a lot about whether, how, and to what extent a government is…
226 IT IS NOT INEQUALITIES THAT KILL PEOPLE; IT IS THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE INEQUALITIES THAT KILL PEOPLE. (Vicente Navarro)
People that happen to be poor need jobs and a livelihood; to agonize about inequality is, for them, a luxury.…
225 OPPOSING COUNTER-POWER TO POWER…
1. Public sector interventions impinge on a vast array of human rights issues. Quite predictably, these interventions reflect the distribution…
224 THE DILEMMA IN HUMAN RIGHTS WORK: WHEN ARE SERVICE DELIVERY, CAPACITY BUILDING, ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION REALLY EMPOWERING?
Disclaimer: i) The empowerment of some entails the dis-empowerment of others –usually the current holders of power. ii) Empowering people…
223 ‘ELEMENTAL WATSON’: HEALTH SECTOR REFORM HAS, SO FAR, IGNORED THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH.
1. Ministries of health around the world claim they have carried out ‘a’ health sector reform; they argue that by…
222 EXPERIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT, IN DEVELOPMENT WORK, WE NOW HAVE TO CHANGE OUR TACTICS: WE WILL NO LONGER ASK FOR POLITICAL WILL OR COMMITMENT, BUT INSTEAD, WILL PUSH GOVERNMENTS ON THEIR LEGAL OBLIGATION.
-Injustice is a social disease that needs to be combated with the force of an epidemic. -We have no other…
221 IT BEHOOVES ALL OF US TO INSIST ON ASSERTING OUR HUMAN RIGHTS; OTHERWISE, WE ARE OUR OWN WORST ENEMY.
-Ignoring human rights considerations carries a huge cost; one of them is an inability to understand our world. (Vicente Navarro)…
220 A VISION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WITHOUT A WIDELY SHARED ACTION PLAN LEADS NOWHERE.
It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it.…