Democracy is in recession (Thomas Friedman) -Our current ‘democracies’ are nothing more than the government of a minority throwing overboard the human rights of a majority. (adapted from Thomas Jefferson)…
Tomorrow must be more than just another today 1. In development work, it is actually the result of a willful effort by our leaders–those with the right ideals– to effect…
Ultimately, successwill depend on how we contribute to foster the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a human rights-compliant manner. (H.R. Schillinger) So,in order to add significant leverage…
Ultimately, successwill depend on how we contribute to foster the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a human rights-compliant manner. (H.R. Schillinger) So,in order to add significant leverage…
So much is offered to us through indicators-stuffed networks that we live in constant awe for not being able to absorb it all –and much more so, not having the…
1. Could it be that the problem with religion is that it is somehow transformed into law, because it derives from a divine authority? But God talks to man like…
Hegel somewhere remarked that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgotto add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. (Karl Marx, The…
Politics is not just something to be studied; it is something you either do, or let others do to you. (P. Iglesias, PODEMOS, Spain) 1.Politics is more than an object…
-“Some dare not speak about human rights (HR) any longer, because the term has been prostituted by the son’a bitches that hijacked it for their own use and ‘wore it…
1. Consider the following list of iron laws about poverty and equality as highlighted by Philip Alston, the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights • Poverty and wealth…