121 WHY POWER ONLY YIELDS TO COUNTER-POWER.
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org In the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, the essence of development work ough to be to mobilize rights holders against the current powers…
120 ARE THE RIGHTS OF NATURE BEING TRAMPLED? A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE.
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract The paper explores the role transnational corporations under the capitalist accumulation regime have been playing globally in the non-sustainable exploitation of natural…
119 YES, RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY ARE TOO NARROWLY DEFINED.
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract A short and well-justified critique of the concepts of resilience and sustainability as commonly used is presented. The discourse of ‘increasing resilience’…
418 IN A WORLD DOMINATED BY MARKETS, WHERE RESOURCES FLOW TOWARD POWER INSTEAD OF NEED, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE REALLY CARED MORE ABOUT HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION FROM A RIGHT TO NUTRITION PERSPECTIVE? (Brooke Aksnes)
Human Rights: Food for a narrowly focused thought Human Rights Reader 418 The current malnutrition problem around the world is not its double burden, but its multiple burdens. By narrowly…
417 POVERTY REDUCTION AS A GOAL SOUNDS LOVELY, BUT THIS FAIRY TALE VISION OF DEVELOPMENT AND OF HUMAN RIGHTS BETRAYS A SERIOUS MISUNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY. (J. Hickel)
Human rights: Food for a misunderstood thought Human Rights Reader 417 -An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. (Plutarch, ancient Greek…
416 HEALTH-RIGHTS AND JUSTICE-IN-GLOBAL-HEALTH HAVE A UNITY OF PURPOSE: TO GUARANTEE HEALTH OPPORTUNITIES AND OUTCOMES FOR MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS.
Human rights: Food for an often-ignored thought Human Rights Reader 416 Most governments ignore their human rights obligations in health Currently, governments perceive no impending threat whenever they ignore their…
415 INEQUALITY HAS BEEN A CHOICE. GLOBALIZATION THRIVES ON EXISTING INEQUALITIES. (Joseph Stiglitz)
Human rights: Food for a not-by-chance thought Human Rights Reader 415 -Bernie Sanders put it best: “We not only have massive wealth and income inequality, but a power structure that…
414 THE GREATEST PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT INTERESTED IN POLITICS IS THAT THEY ARE GOVERNED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE. (Arnold Toynbee)
Human rights: Food for a punishing thought Human Rights Reader 414 Politics without value-grounded ideas stimulates corruption (Revista Primera Piedra) 1. In its true sense, politics is to be taken…
413 HEALTH CARE FOR THOSE RENDERED POOR OFTEN ENDS UP BEING POOR HEALTH CARE, SO THAT THE MORE WE TARGET BENEFITS AT THEM ONLY … THE LESS LIKELY WE ARE TO REDUCE POVERTY AND INEQUALITY. (Amrtya Sen)
Human rights: Food for a thought to be fought-for Human Rights Reader 413 We can safely say that, in the case of health, inequality is a passive outcome: ‘it happens’;…
412. YOUNG PEOPLE MUST OCCUPY THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN HUMAN RIGHTS DECISION-MAKING. THEY HAVE TO PROGRESSIVELY TAKE THE HELM OF THE SHIP.
Human rights: Food for a youth-reminding thought Human Rights Reader 412 The future will ultimately either go in the direction of the youth’s commitment, or along their indifference about human…