#: The only ‘free’ cheese is in the mousetrap. -In many ways, the problems we see around us today are…
-The abolitionist movement in the US started with some Quakers saying that slavery was immoral. The movement then grew, and…
-Human rights start rather than end with the fulfillment of the right to eat… Undernourished people cannot wait around for…
1. Too bad: We have been deeply intimidated by the magnitude of the human rights (HR) problem. Is it that…
Andrea Cornwall, Karen Brock (2004) https://www.academia.edu/2636098/What_do_Buzzwords_do_for_Development_Policy?email_work_card=view-paper [I here excerpt and adapt from this excellent oldie-but-goody paper given its relevance to…
-Are we going to allow the status-quo to continue playing itself out, i.e., continue playing “the game of the status-quo?”…
-Take care of the quality of life and the quantity will take care of itself. (Cicely Williams) Start by thinking:…
1. As I have said repeatedly, human rights (HR) represent ethical positions. A right, however, does not mean the same…
-It is here fitting to paraphrase the adage of seeing the trees and not the forest. As the world tries…
– “Where, after all, do universal human rights (HR) begin? In small places, close to home –so close and so…