Human rights violations are a long running saga and a straightjacket for sustainable development. (CETIM) 1. To understand them comprehensively,…
-Democracy is a means, not an end. -Democracy is not a spectator sport. -The world is run by people that…
[Human Rights (HR) being very much on our agenda, what follows is a collection of (not always related) mostly one-liners…
1. The Human Rights Framework does not demand a ‘right to be healthy’; it does not ask governments to commit…
1. Human Rights assessments are government- or civil society-led participatory processes that aim at diagnosing the human rights (HR) situation…
When the same data are pored over many times, there is a danger we will find patterns that are there…
-Human rights are timeless and are the expressions of fundamental entitlements of human beings. -Unless poor people are accorded their…
1. Let us recall that human rights (HR) originally encompass four main principles: participation, inclusion, accountability and the rule of…
-It is unlikely that the naysayers and nitpickers will be able to overrule committed human rights activists. -It is difficult…
1. The currently prevailing public health paradigm is suffering from myopia. It mostly embarks in analyzing what really are only…