225 OPPOSING COUNTER-POWER TO POWER…
1. Public sector interventions impinge on a vast array of human rights issues. Quite predictably, these interventions reflect the distribution…
224 THE DILEMMA IN HUMAN RIGHTS WORK: WHEN ARE SERVICE DELIVERY, CAPACITY BUILDING, ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION REALLY EMPOWERING?
Disclaimer: i) The empowerment of some entails the dis-empowerment of others –usually the current holders of power. ii) Empowering people…
223 ‘ELEMENTAL WATSON’: HEALTH SECTOR REFORM HAS, SO FAR, IGNORED THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH.
1. Ministries of health around the world claim they have carried out ‘a’ health sector reform; they argue that by…
222 EXPERIENCE HAS SHOWN THAT, IN DEVELOPMENT WORK, WE NOW HAVE TO CHANGE OUR TACTICS: WE WILL NO LONGER ASK FOR POLITICAL WILL OR COMMITMENT, BUT INSTEAD, WILL PUSH GOVERNMENTS ON THEIR LEGAL OBLIGATION.
-Injustice is a social disease that needs to be combated with the force of an epidemic. -We have no other…
221 IT BEHOOVES ALL OF US TO INSIST ON ASSERTING OUR HUMAN RIGHTS; OTHERWISE, WE ARE OUR OWN WORST ENEMY.
-Ignoring human rights considerations carries a huge cost; one of them is an inability to understand our world. (Vicente Navarro)…
220 A VISION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WITHOUT A WIDELY SHARED ACTION PLAN LEADS NOWHERE.
It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it.…
219 DEVELOPMENT POLICY (..AND HUMAN RIGHTS WORK) IS NOT ABOUT (ETHICALLY MOTIVATED) ALMS FOR THE POOR. (H. Wieczorek-Zeul)
Development has become hostage to finance. Finance has to serve development and not, as it is presently, the other way…
218 WHERE THERE IS NO EFFECTIVE CLAIMING FOR REDRESS, THERE ARE SIMPLY NO PROSPECTS FOR EFFECTIVE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Before becoming de-facto claimants, the excluded come from an experience of being treated by bureaucrats in a way that echoes…
24. Why refer to ‘Food AND Nutrition’
WHY WE NEED TO FOCUS ON FOOD NOT FORGETTING NUTRITION! As a small group of concerned nutritionist, we have, for…
25. The People’s Health Movement
THE PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT By now you know I have, for long, been very involved in the People’s Health Movement…