The human rights framework, a major instrument for accountability, is under attack 1. The UN is explicitly an intergovernmental body;…
Keep in mind: The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. (Babu Owino) Human rights embody…
-We are, more and more, seeing a process of outsourcing the international development agenda. – The narrative of ‘progress’ is…
In many parts of the world, cows are given more rights than women. (Huffington Post) We cannot let anybody forget…
Claudio Schuftan, Member of the Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement, Saigon, Vietnam International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second…
EDITORIAL Social Medicine/Medicina Social, Vol.10, No.2, August 2016, pp.36-40. Also available in English as “How is the human rights-based approach…
1. For the last 25 years, I have been in the global health in development business; mostly addressing it from…
[Taken from ‘From Disparity to Dignity: Tackling Economic Inequality Through the SDGs’, Human Rights Policy Brief, CESR, November 2016. I…
1. Donor countries (the US in particular) continue to push WHO towards working with industry through ‘multi‐stakeholder partnerships’, rather than…
Already the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 interpreted the issue as implying that no State, group or person…