Allow me to start this Reader with an homage to the late Urban Jonsson with whom I worked for many years on many human rights issues –not always agreeing, it…
1. Growth of a veritable human rights network is needed to succeed in coordinating actions that particularly pursue achieving a greater degree of social cohesion, of solidarity, of expanded contacts…
1. The reason why global health policy-makers are not implementing the knowledge generated by global health scholars with the right empirical, every-day experience, is not because they use different normative…
Our time is marked by the predominance of fear over hope 10. A pact between the different constituencies of claim holders must be the result of a political reading that…
1. These days, international politics is too fragmented to achieve much, especially asso many political leaders are guided by corporate interests. (H-J. Luhmann) As a consequence, nationstates,rich and poor, have…
SDGs: “We must avoid every temptation to fall into a declarationist nominalism which would assuage our consciences.” (Pope Francis) 1. Unfortunately, the Sustainable Development Goal targets shied away from explicitly…
Human Rights Learning (HRL) is badly needed for more and more people to start recognizing the roots of their vulnerability and for them to recognize how these are related to…
The powerful exploit enormous advantages For those in power, the money they amass is never enough; with all the notoriety and success it can buy them, it also becomes the…
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…