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…
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…
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…
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. *:…
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…
-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).…
Have we fallen into the trap of using the language of neoliberals so that they are able to shape how we think and behave in regards to human rights? (S.…
-We live in societies where everything is globalized; ancient ancestral cultures and human rights are marginalized by the economic processes installed. (Evo Morales) -The passion to dominate is the most…
-The most important qualitative and valuable change a human rights activist can make in her/his life is to stop judging so as to start understanding. (Albino Gomez) -It is those…
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’…