Development in the wrong direction? Development cooperation can neither be reduced to fighting terrorism nor can development policy remain a…
Needs are met or satisfied. Rights are realized (respected, protected, facilitated and fulfilled). Needs do not imply duties or obligations,…
For claim-holders to build their capacity is for people to understand their rights, to claim them and to contribute to…
For decades the ‘Development School’ and the ‘Human Rights (HR) School’ had progressed in a parallel manner with very limited…
At the risk of sounding panfletary, I think the (mostly normative) elements that could begin making our work yield more…
Sustainable development is about processes of popular enrichment, empowerment and participation that our technocratic, project-oriented view has simply failed to…
Discrimination against women (and minorities) is still common in countries that have undergone significant economic growth where one would have…
To make sense of current world problems, we too often fall back on a “shish-kebab mentality”. This much easier and…
A word of caution is called for at this point on the issue of what I call “pseudo-basic intervention techniques…
As I had said earlier, factors such as foreign debt, international and national income maldistribution, the exploitation of the primary…