-The fact that we have so many poor people is sad. But that it always is the same people is definitely unfair. -Being poor, you do not complain, you are…
To a chronic problem we cannot apply crises methods. 1. The climate, the economic and financial, the food and the fuel prices crises we have been faced with underscore yet…
Has the concept of good governance been overused and has it become a rather insincere cliché? It is certainly old. The World Bank Development Report of 1997 was on good…
While not universally embraced, the notion that health care systems are public goods protecting an inalienable right of all human beings is increasingly invoked in debates about health care financing,…
OPERA: A step by step framework for assessing compliance 30. Given the fact that exclusion and disempowerment often breed bias, claim holders are not recognized as key players in all…
1. For the fulfillment of human rights (HR), the obstacles to be overcome are actually way beyond what the core of economic globalization, i.e., the free market, can overcome and…
As progress towards the MDGs is achieved, there yet is little evidence of results that are inclusive of people that are discriminated 18. Despite the lack of data, the evidence…
EQUITY: 1. Equity is a core legal concept intimately linked to the notion of justice. It goes beyond the letter of the law and is considered part of natural law/natural…
“If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal”. (Emma Goldman as cited by M. Engler) The power of organization (communities) 20. Community organizing for democracy means building up organizations…
-In the name of democracy, too many promises remain unfulfilled for the poor majority; lingering poverty and a lack of transparent democratic processes flagrantly contradict the state’s rhetoric. There is…