155 PUBLIC HEALTH BRINGS A COUNTERBALANCE TO THE INDIVIDUAL-CENTERED VIEW OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
In the above case, it has been said that individual human rights (HR) may be in conflict with social benefits.…
154 HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE TO BE TRANSFORMATIVE RATHER THAN JUST SIMPLY EASING HUMAN SUFFERING. (Leslie London)
Underdevelopment, with its flagrant violations of human rights, can and does persist with the full connivance of the exploited and…
153 JONSSON’S CREDO* (part 2 of 2)
[A compilation of bare-bones Human Rights truisms] Human Rights Planning and Programming Although HR are equal and cannot…
152 JONSSON’S CREDO* (part 1 of 2)
[A compilation of bare-bones Human Rights truisms] Some general truisms A human right is both a right to…
151 HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE TO BE A CORE COMPONENT OF THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY
Today, too much emphasis is placed on representative rather than direct democracy. We forget that the beginnings of democratic…
150 FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: WORKING AT CROSS-PURPOSES?
Who will live and who will die has already been decided by the economic structures brought about by globalization (P.…
149 MORAL PROGRESS DOES NOT EXIST; WE ARE NOT MORE MORAL TODAY THAN WHAT WE WERE A HUNDRED OR A THOUSAND YEARS AGO. (Primo Levi)
[When reading Levi, the Italian 20th century writer, I found a series of aphorisms, i.e., maxims that apply to the…
148 FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE, POWER IMBALANCES UNDERLIE HEALTH INEQUALITIES
If you recognize and agree with a) the indivisibility of rights, b) the equal importance of people’s socio-economic entitlements, and…
147 BECAUSE OF THEIR UNIVERSALITY, SOVEREIGNTY MUST SOMETIMES COME SECOND TO HUMAN RIGHTS.
Are we here to make a point or are we here to make a difference? (Kul Gautam) NGOs purporting…
146 GROUP RIGHTS AND COLLECTIVE RIGHTS ARE NOT THE SUM OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.
We do not need to define ‘group rights’ and ‘collective rights’. They are already well defined. The Right-to-Development is the…