145 WORKING WITH THE MARGINALIZED AND THE EXCLUDED, AND ATTENDING TO THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS NEEDS, REQUIRES TIME AND PASSION.
We all know that it is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. Human rights…
144 PROGRAMS FOR THE POOR MOST OFTEN ARE POOR PROGRAMS: REDUCING THE INCOME GAP BETWEEN THE POOR AND THE NON-POOR IS THE REAL CHALLENGE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS.
1. Long centuries of poverty and injustice have accumulated too many insatisfactions, too much misery and too much indignity, as…
143 POWER MAKES EVEN THE UGLIEST LOOK HANDSOME.
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. (Montesquieu) Let’s face…
142 HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NO LONGER A-PREOCCUPATION-THAT-IS-BEST-LEFT-ASIDE FOR ‘OTHERS’ TO WORRY ABOUT
Human rights (HR) are based on the assumption that there are things that ought not to be done to any…
141 IT IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION TO SAY THAT THE HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH IS IN A DIFFERENT LEAGUE THAN OTHER APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENT: IT IS THE ‘MAKE OR BREAK’ ISSUE OF OUR TIME.
The human rights-based approach (HRBA) signals a ‘new deal’ in the annals of development work. It shifts the focus from…
140 MANY STILL THINK HUMAN RIGHTS ARE ABOUT POLITICAL PRISONERS AND STREET DEMONSTRATIONS.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. This notion ignores the all important economic, social and cultural rights.…
139 HUMAN RIGHTS QUESTIONS I WISH I HAD CONCISE ANSWERS FOR.
HIV/AIDS is an example of a challenge that, in the last at least ten years, changed the political landscape in…
40. The SUN Initiative: Putting nutrition at the center?
January blog Claudio Schuftan Ho Chi Minh City. After a long seven months in the US, I am back home.…
138 THE HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH: A DISTILLED INVENTORY OF ITS ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES. (Part 2 of 2)
Other attributes of the human rights-based approach (RBA): A mini-SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis: Some of the RBA’s…
137 THE HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH: A DISTILLED INVENTORY OF ITS ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES. (Part 1 of 2)
The bullets here below recap what it means to apply a holistic rights-based lens in development practice, be it in…