219 DEVELOPMENT POLICY (..AND HUMAN RIGHTS WORK) IS NOT ABOUT (ETHICALLY MOTIVATED) ALMS FOR THE POOR. (H. Wieczorek-Zeul)
Development has become hostage to finance. Finance has to serve development and not, as it is presently, the other way…
218 WHERE THERE IS NO EFFECTIVE CLAIMING FOR REDRESS, THERE ARE SIMPLY NO PROSPECTS FOR EFFECTIVE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Before becoming de-facto claimants, the excluded come from an experience of being treated by bureaucrats in a way that echoes…
24. Why refer to ‘Food AND Nutrition’
WHY WE NEED TO FOCUS ON FOOD NOT FORGETTING NUTRITION! As a small group of concerned nutritionist, we have, for…
25. The People’s Health Movement
THE PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT By now you know I have, for long, been very involved in the People’s Health Movement…
217 VALUES, POLITICS, DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
1. In this day and age, if one looks at the political spectrum in rich countries, value politics overshadow and…
216 SICK, UNDERFED, UNDERPAID, DISCRIMINATED AND OVERLOOKED, THE EXCLUDED ARE AT THE CENTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS WORK.
Human rights work is about first greatly reducing –and then putting an end –to the dynamics of exclusion. 1. In…
215 SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER
The struggle of man against power is the struggle between memory and forgetfulness. (Milan Kundera). 1. We do not live…
214 ACTIVISTS’ ACTIONS ARE NORMALLY MORE ENDURING WHEN DRIVEN NOT ONLY BY SELFLESS INTEREST, BUT ALSO BY A CERTAIN SENSE OF SELF-INTEREST. (A.R. Ghatak)
-Most of us are passionate about what we do. But the truth is that a good part of what we…
26. Philanthrocapitalism
Conflicts of interest within philanthrocapitalism? * The term philanthrocapitalism is used to describe a growing movement which aims to harness…
213 BRING HUMAN RIGHTS PRINCIPLES OUT OF THE CLOSET. #
Implementing the human rights framework in a participatory way is equivalent to exercising direct democracy (as opposed to representative democracy…