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…
354 OVERCOMING POVERTY IS NOT A GESTURE OF CHARITY. IT IS AN ACT OF JUSTICE. IT IS THE PROTECTION OF A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT: THE RIGHT TO DIGNITY AND TO A DECENTLIFE.(Nelson Mandela)
-Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made; it can thus be overcome and eradicated by man-made actions, i.e.,by a far greater resolve on the part of…
353 IN HUMAN RIGHTS EMPOWERMENT, IT IS NOT ABOUT DREAMING AND COMING UP WITH UNREALISTIC STRATEGIES THAT LEAD TO A FUTURE THAT NEVER COMES TRUE. (N. Gordon)
1. In this Reader, let me add some key ideas about empowerment, i.e., about people gaining mastery over their lives, community members assuming greater power or expanding their existing power…
352 IN THE CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL GOVERNANCE LANDSCAPE, IT IS POWER ASYMMETRIES BETWEEN ACTORS WITH CONFLICTING INTERESTS THAT SHAPE THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DETERMINATION OF HEALTH.#
It is the existing global set-up and norms that ultimately limit our range of choices and constrain our actions in health at the local level. The present system of global…
351 THE HUMAN RIGHTS CONCEPT IS CREEPING-IN INTO THE DEVELOPMENT LINGO IN A DISTORTED MANNER AND IN THE WRONG CONTEXT; NOWADAYS THIS IS A CURRENT OCCURRENCE (LidaLhotska
Development blues Inequalities are pressing at the seams of our social fabric. (Christine Lagarde) 1. At present, in the development arena, the so-called ‘international community’ has proclaimed itself as a…
350 THE HUMAN RIGHTS READERS STEER US AWAY FROM CONFORMISM, BUT THEY DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY LEAD US TO ACTION. #
1. Some may say the Readers present a depressing outlook. But pessimism is not my personal inclination;* it rather is my measured reaction when faced with the stern reality. *:…
349 DEMOCRACY IS NOTHING BUT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE MASSES WHERE THE MAJORITY* CAN THROW THE RIGHTS OF THE MINORITIES OVERBOARD. (Thomas Jefferson)
We cannot lose a democracy we never had 1. The illusion of democracy is just one of the many illusions that we have been educated to believe in. 2. Many…
348 FROM THE ABSENCE OF ANY CONSIDERATION BEING GIVEN TO HUMAN RIGHTS, TO A STATE WHERE THEY ARE PAID LIP SERVICE, TO A STATE IN WHICH CONCRETE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE MADE …AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE APPLIED AND MONITORED!
-We are weary of those who speak human rights and deny them to their own people (or perhaps do not deny them, but do not actually know enough about them).…