1. Long centuries of poverty and injustice have accumulated too many insatisfactions, too much misery and too much indignity, as…
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. (Montesquieu) Let’s face…
Human rights (HR) are based on the assumption that there are things that ought not to be done to any…
The human rights-based approach (HRBA) signals a ‘new deal’ in the annals of development work. It shifts the focus from…
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. This notion ignores the all important economic, social and cultural rights.…
HIV/AIDS is an example of a challenge that, in the last at least ten years, changed the political landscape in…
January blog Claudio Schuftan Ho Chi Minh City. After a long seven months in the US, I am back home.…
Other attributes of the human rights-based approach (RBA): A mini-SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis: Some of the RBA’s…
The bullets here below recap what it means to apply a holistic rights-based lens in development practice, be it in…
The human rights (HR) problems we are trying to solve deserve constructive and informed solutions –not least for the sake…