510 DEVELOPMENT: A SOCIAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS TINDERBOX.
-A defiant development strategy is to reverse the ‘normal’. So, should development be ‘delivered’ or be participatory? You know the…
509 NUMBERS ARE NOT ALWAYS AS SIMPLE OR AS NEUTRAL AS THEY SEEM AND THE INTERNET HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO A ‘DIGITAL EXTRACTIVE ECONOMY’
(Alex Gladstein, RobertoSavio) -The problem with using statistics to sing the praises of autocracy is that collecting verifiable data inside…
508 TIME TO REJECT A HISTORY LOADED WITH AMBIGUITIES, MANIPULATIONS, BIASED INTERPRETATIONS AND INACCURACIES?
(Louis Casado) -Along human history, fictitious stories, over and over, succeeded over the truth. For hundreds of years, historians have…
507 COULD IT BE THAT THE VERY IDEA OF HUMAN RIGHTS WAS BORN TO CONFRONT AUTOCRATIC POWER? (part 2 of 2)
I think that, like in boxing, the Left has received a big blow and is groggy, not knowing where to…
506 COULD IT BE THAT THE VERY IDEA OF HUMAN RIGHTS WAS BORN TO CONFRONT AUTOCRATIC POWER? (part 1 of 2)
(Claudio Sepulveda) Politics is not the art of the possible, but the result of the correlation of forces (Louis Casado)…
505 HOW MANY LIVES IS INEQUALITY IN HEALTH RESPONSIBLE FOR?
[Excerpted and paraphrased from: Intl. J. for Equity in Health, 1:1, 22 April 2002. (www.equityhealthj.com/content/1/1/1 ) Macinko J.A. and Starfield…
504 DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT GIVEN, AND ARE MORE THAN WORTH FIGHTING FOR.
1. Democracy is a constant struggle for compromise –forever a construction site. An end is never in sight as people…
503 THE CONTAGIOUS SOCIAL PASSIVITY OF MANY CLAIM HOLDERS IS OUR ACHILLES HEEL.* (Arturo A. Muñoz)
*: Does this include us all reading this? Human rights remain far from being universalized -A good friend tells me…
502 MULTISTAKEHOLDERISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A CRITICAL LOOK. (Part 2 of 2)
Corporate Agendas 21. Behind every multistakeholder initiative (MSI), there is a decision by a corporation to engage since, at best,…
501 MULTISTAKEHOLDERISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A CRITICAL LOOK. (Part 1 of 2)
(adapted and summarized from Nick Buxton, editor, TNI) -As public-private partnerships (PPPs) mushroom, core human rights mechanisms established since the…