1. Democracy is a constant struggle for compromise –forever a construction site. An end is never in sight as people will always have to renegotiate how they live together. This…
*: 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…
Human rights: Food for a non-charitable thought ‘Access to health’ Human Rights Reader 498 -Coverage is not the same as access! 1. Considering health as an-end-for-economic-development represents a purely utilitarian…
Human rights: Food for an Orwellian thought ‘HR and Big Brother’ Human Rights Reader 497 -The title of this Reader comes from Big Brother, the character in George Orwell’s novel…
Human rights: Food for escaping a thought ‘Old boys clubs frustrate me’ Human Rights Reader 496 -The difficulty in people’s work lies not so much in developing new ideas as…
Human rights: Food for shaping many a colleague’s thought ‘Viewpoint’ (4) Human Rights Reader 495 Economic power, political power and poverty The Economic and Political Discourse -To an economist, it…