364 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS: DREAMERS OF DREAMS AND SEERS OF VISIONS?
1. In sink with the title,and with no intention to glorify human rights (HR) activists, I would like to start this Reader with some assorted aphorisms I have picked up…
363 IF RATIONALITY, ETHICS AND FAIR ECONOMICS WERE HUMANITY’S GUIDING PRINCIPLES TO LIVING ON THIS PLANET, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION WOULD NO LONGER NEED GLOBAL SUMMITS.
Human rights principles and standards are to be used by activists in social movementsto contest neoliberalism’s myriad violations of human rights.(adapted from P. Clayes) The challenge to be addressed in…
362 WARNING: THE READING OF UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COVENANTS SERIOUSLY UPSETS IGNORANCE. (Albino Gomez)
In some agencies,selectivity and hypocrisy surround human rights. (Ignacio Saiz) 1. Human rights language in the successive post 2015 development agenda drafts still fails to move beyond aspirations and to…
361 IT IS THE REALIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS THAT CONTRIBUTES TO PEACE, JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD: HERE IS WHY. (Urban Jonsson)
The realization of human rights is a prerequisite for the achievement of the other three. 1. The application of the human rights-based framework must be seen in the larger UN…
360 ONLY WITH STRONGER COOPERATION AND INTEGRATION BETWEEN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND PUBLIC INTEREST CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS WILL THE SHIFT IN PARADIGM TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS BECOME A REALITY.(Right to Food+Nutrition Watch 2014, People’s Health Movement)
The centrality of politics 1. Do politics matter? We should realize that if the answer to this important question is no, then we –those living in so-called democratic societies–are in…
359 WHAT IS UNLIKELY TO MAKE IT INTO THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS(SDGs).
1. Yes, as one of the SDGs says, the problem the world faces is not a problem of food production, but one of underconsumption by those rendered poor. But beware:…
358 DENOUNCING FOREIGN AID USING THE “WEST LECTURES THE REST” DYNAMIC.
Foreign aid does not address the frequently adverse effects of powerful global nations using their muscle and force, as well as them too often looking the other way on the…
357 HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES STRESS THE SECULAR NATURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS WORK
Food for thought for those who doubt -Where do the Gods hide as our world devours itself while they look aside?What have Gods done wrong that our world is falling…
356 WHY IT IS CRUCIAL TO STRENGTHEN EXTRA-TERRITORIAL HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION
1. Human rights specialists have only relatively recently begun to give serious attention to the issue of extra-territorial obligations (ETOs), so the terminology relating to it has not yet sufficiently…
355 WE MAY BE MOVING TOWARDS A POST-NEOLIBERAL ERA, BUT MOVING AWAY FROM CAPITALISM WITH ITS MYRIAD HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IS MUCH ANOTHER THING
1. An era can be said to end when its basic aspirations and illusions are exhausted. (Arthur Miller) Take neoliberalism: Disenchantment with neoliberalism as an ideal has grown to a…