Background 1. On December 10, 1948, 48 countries signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The rest is history –history not to be taken lightly since human rights (HR) are…
1. While health and human rights advocates have, from the start, taken a global perspective on the causes of ill-health, social medicine and particularly social epidemiology have been slower to…
Accountability in foreign aid The international legal regime established through the various human rights treaties is the existing global accountability framework which we should be drawing upon much, much more.…
The role of claim holders and duty bearers* 1. With an emphasis on development results that actually ought to be seen as fulfilled human rights, duty-bearers become accountable in a…
-Donors have done pretty much as they wished for quite some time now, and this has not been beneficial for the developing countries. (J. Cedergren) -Some say that human rights…
-Liberalism defends the interests of the intellectual elite; conservatism defends the interests of the financial and industrial elite. The question is: Who defends the interests of human rights? (…and are…
-For the HR paradigm to impose itself, small is beautiful, but big is necessary. (F.H. Abed) -The thinking that created the problem cannot be the same as that which will…
Human rights are intrinsic values that give all human beings dignity. 1. Human rights (HR) are a foundation of the UN. Therefore, the UN has a core mandate to institute…
– When one leaves behind problems without solutions, one does not leave, one absconds. (Jerome Koenig) – A powerful interest of a few has the potential to sway the situation…
1. As human rights activists, we do engage in combating the inertia rooted in many of our fellow development workers (including those that do not believe in anything, or that…