(Louis Casado) -Along human history, fictitious stories, over and over, succeeded over the truth. For hundreds of years, historians have known this. This is why they so often have had…
I think that, like in boxing, the Left has received a big blow and is groggy, not knowing where to go (Boaventura de Souza Santos) 15. The history of political…
(Claudio Sepulveda) Politics is not the art of the possible, but the result of the correlation of forces (Louis Casado) 1. These days, in so many countries, politics are not…
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*: Does this include us all reading this? Human rights remain far from being universalized -A good friend tells me that the problem with many of our peers and colleagues…
Corporate Agendas 21. Behind every multistakeholder initiative (MSI), there is a decision by a corporation to engage since, at best, it is keen to improve its social and environmental record…
(adapted and summarized from Nick Buxton, editor, TNI) -As public-private partnerships (PPPs) mushroom, core human rights mechanisms established since the late 1940s are being underfinanced and weakened. Defining multistakeholderism 1.…
-“If it is possible to live without writing, do it.” (Gabriel Garcia Marquez quoting Reiner Maria Rilke) -I think a writer writes only one book,
Human rights: Food for an insufficiently cared-for thought ‘The rights of nature’ Human Rights Reader 499 1. What Monbiot highlights and reminds us-of calls for some serious questions: • Can…