184 IN HUMAN RIGHTS WORK, WE CANNOT WAIT FOR POLITICAL WILL –WE NEED TO GENERATE IT! (P. Engberg)
Human Rights in the development discourse have reached a stage-of-no-return with the climate for the adoption and application of human…
183 CLARIFYING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT IS AT THE CENTER OF THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN CLAIM HOLDERS AND DUTY BEARERS.
1. Since most scholarly articles on human rights (HR) fall, without making much of a sound either in the academic…
182 WE DO NOT NEED MORE PHILANTHROPY AND PATRIARCHY; WE NEED MORE EMPHASIS ON HUMAN RIGHTS.
Rich countries still think the West is the center of the world and that salvation must (patriarchically) come from that…
181 IN THE DEVELOPMENT DEBATE, THE PERCEPTION OF PEOPLE RENDERED POOR AS PEOPLE IN NEED RATHER THAN AS PEOPLE WITH LEGITIMATE RIGHTS PUTS THEM TOTALLY OUT OF STEP WITH THE RIGHTS-BASED FRAMEWORK.
Together with Dennis Kucinich, the ex-US presidential candidate, we see poverty as a weapon of mass destruction. 1. Is poverty…
180 SOCIAL PROGRESS HAS ALWAYS DEPENDED ON PUBLIC PRESSURE.
Since there needs to be a push for an international paradigm shift among top decision-makers/duty-bearers, do we really have a…
33. Swarmed by data
WE ARE SWARMED BY TOO MANY STATISTICS AND DATA THAT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, PROVIDE LITTLE VALUABLE ACTIONABLE…
34. Fundamental Public Health Nutrition
April blog Claudio Schuftan Here above is my hero Rudolf Virchow. He was a social visionary who in the late…
35. The political economy of malnutrition
February blog Claudio Schuftan En route to Kinshasa. Consulting work is catching up with me once again. This time I will…
36. A new vision for WHO
March blog Claudio Schuftan Here is a picture of my dear friend and colleague Dr Ravi Narayan of the Centre…
37. Malnutrition and technical fixes
February blog Claudio Schuftan This month I remember the colleagues who coined the term ‘commerciogenic malnutrition’: Derrick Jelliffe and his…