What’s truly lacking is performance in politics. Why do good men go and hide? (Jerome Koenig) Many politicians oversimplify. Sometimes I think this allows us to talk of ‘political poverty’…
To make human rights radical once again, today we need to refocus it on the long-term vision of the post 2015 agenda Even qualified scientists are warning ‘game over’ so…
The systems and behaviors that have brought us to this point in history –reaching planetary boundaries and societal breaking points– must change -True citizens activism will have to question consumerist…
-In the post 2015 development agenda preparation, the temptation, to opt for business as usual with a few cosmetic touches must simply be actively resisted. -Unfortunately, the varied and extensive…
1. In truly democratic societies, active participation is the means for people to voice their criticism, to open the gates to class actions, to demand justice and to change negative…
A specter is haunting (not only) Europe: The specter of human rights. The MDGs never were a global agenda for development; now we need one -Even The Economist recognized that…
A cautionary tale 1. Before the law, there is a sentinel. A peasant approaches this guard and requests the permission to enter the law. But the guard responds that, for…
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. (Albert Einstein) This Reader is about human rights learning Human rights literacy has too often been achieved by applying…
In political terms, the birth of human rights was a non-trivial achievement. The human rights principles about development have now become a firm part of the framework of the modern…
-Human rights are philosophical; they are holistic; they are a secular religion with its own commandments. (Shula Koenig) But does the philosophy behind human rights depend on science? It does…