– When one leaves behind problems without solutions, one does not leave, one absconds. (Jerome Koenig) – A powerful interest…
1. As human rights activists, we do engage in combating the inertia rooted in many of our fellow development workers…
-The fields of the poor may yield much food, but the same is swept away through injustice. (Proverbs 13:23) -If…
A contemporary philosopher asked himself: Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?…
-We cannot take scarcity-of-resources as a reply to claim holders’ demands without asking why scarcity. -They may be able to…
-Is morality a private matter? Decency certainly is a public matter… -Intellectuals pride themselves for their logic, but logic, by…
Is it facetious to say that ever more people are ever more worse-off? 1. Human Rights (HR) provide an authoritative…
-It is in General Comment 28 that we find the more precise guidance of what equal rights of men and…
As opposed to a human rights activist, the indifferent person has been called a ‘passivist’ (Geoffrey Cannon) – The world…
Human rights work ought to constantly look for political points of entry. 1. Human rights (HR) are global affairs, i.e.,…