One cannot carry out work in the name of ethical principles without a critique of politics (J. B. Foster, Monthly Review) 1. Ethics is unavoidable, because it defines what it…
Participation and representation-with-a-binding-character are part of a human right encompassing the right to voice and influence -Participation has been called ‘the right of rights’, because it allows members of society…
#: The only ‘free’ cheese is in the mousetrap. -In many ways, the problems we see around us today are related to past (market-based?) attempts to foster (a certain) development…
-The abolitionist movement in the US started with some Quakers saying that slavery was immoral. The movement then grew, and thus things changed. (Isabel Allende)
-Human rights start rather than end with the fulfillment of the right to eat… Undernourished people cannot wait around for the slow-moving process of agricultural modernization -Marginal changes of any…
1. Too bad: We have been deeply intimidated by the magnitude of the human rights (HR) problem. Is it that we have imprisoned ourselves within our own skepticism, resignation and…
Andrea Cornwall, Karen Brock (2004) https://www.academia.edu/2636098/What_do_Buzzwords_do_for_Development_Policy?email_work_card=view-paper . 1. The SDGs (MDGs in the original paper) serve as a good example of the ‘extravagance in promising future benefits’. It represents a…
-Are we going to allow the status-quo to continue playing itself out, i.e., continue playing “the game of the status-quo?” What three social reformers had to say: How relevant today?…
-Take care of the quality of life and the quantity will take care of itself. (Cicely Williams) Start by thinking: Health is an animal condition, but most of our ill-health…
1. As I have said repeatedly, human rights (HR) represent ethical positions. A right, however, does not mean the same in the HR system as applied as it does in…