434. MIND YOU, IF NATURE WERE A BANK, THE RICH WOULD HAVE ALREADY SAVED IT. (Eduardo Galeano 1940-2015)
-The most successful transnational corporations in the world are those that are maiming the planet and many of its people…
433. HUMAN RIGHTS WORK IS NOT JUST ABOUT FIGHTING AGAINST INDIVIDUAL HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATORS AND EXISTING INSTITUTIONALIZED INEQUALITIES. IT UNAVOIDABLY REQUIRES STRUGGLING OVER POWER ISSUES AND DEFYING WHOLE SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT. (Open Human Rights)
A tough period is ahead of us, charged with many challenges. We have to think hard, reflect; we have to…
432. PEOPLE TOO OFTEN LOWER THEIR GAZE AND SUBMIT TO THE OVERWHELMING POWER OF THOSE WHO GOVERN US.
In reality, if people get closer and look those who govern us in the eye they will often be astonished…
431. CONVENTIONAL HISTORY HIDES A WHOLE LEGACY OF HISTORICAL INEQUALITIES, STRUCTURAL DISADVANTAGES, GENDER DIFFERENCES AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, AS WELL AS BIASES IN HOW LAWS AND POLICIES HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED THROUGHOUT.
1. Conventional historians are inclined to use histori¬cal information of previous historians to supplement what they find during their research…
430. I HAVE DERIVED MY POLITICS FROM ETHICS… IT IS BECAUSE I SWEAR BY ETHICS THAT I FIND MYSELF IN POLITICS.
The end justifies the means when something justifies the end (Joseph Stalin) 1. In case you have not noticed it,…
429. YOUR BELIEFS DO NOT MAKE YOU A BETTER PERSON, YOUR BEHAVIOR DOES.
-If you do not have the courage of living the way you think, you end up thinking the way you…
428. ANY SITUATION, AS BAD AS IT HAS BECOME, CAN GET WORSE. (Ho Chi Minh)
-In the post-truth era, it is not pessimism that is called-for, realism is. Perhaps truth will ultimately survive and there…
427. OF DATA, COMMUNICATIONS, THE MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
In development work, there is a tendency to confuse political discourse with technical knowledge, enhancing the power of select experts…
426. GIVEN THE STRONG RESISTANCE BY STATES TO ANY TRUE ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS IN AGENDA 2030, WILL THE SDGs LEAD TO STATES AIMING TO ACHIEVE ‘HUMAN-RIGHTS-DEVOID-OF-MEANING’ INDICATORS?
We cannot create the impression that the SDGs are a normative rather than a political framework. The SDGs are a…
425. NEOLIBERALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: WHEN THE NEW ADOPTS THE CLOTHES OF THE OLD. (Harriet Friedmann)
Nothing disappears until it is truly replaced. (Auguste Comte) 1. Neoliberalism is not really new. It is actually an even…