519. THE WORLD MAP OF WEALTH IS SHRINKING WHILE THE ONE OF POVERTY IS EXPANDING: HUMAN RIGHTS TO BE A BYSTANDER? (Herbert de Souza)
-Yes, poverty has a spider web of causes; we need to get at the spider that builds the web. (Nancy…
518. WE NEED A CRITICAL (MORE ROBUST?) ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN THE FULFILLMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
-Reality has three levels: objective, subjective and inter-subjective. The first is bulletproof, the second disappears when the person that believes…
517. AFTER 25+ YEARS, IS THE RIGHT TO HEALTH (RTH) REALLY A MOVEMENT?
1. What I have to say here pertains to a series of serious questions building up on me as an…
516 IN HUMAN RIGHTS, THERE IS NO SUCH A THING AS ‘MODERATELY EQUITABLE’.
-Inequity exists, equity one has to fight for. (Hernan Sandoval) Equality means equal access and outcomes for equal need -It…
515 WE ARE RULED BY AN OPPRESSIVE MARKET, NOT NECESSARILY AN OPPRESSIVE STATE. (David Korten)
-Markets are interested in inequality; it makes people yearn to become consumers. 1. Historically, with time, the exploitative process of…
514 WE LIVE IN A POP, MODERN, COOL CAPITALISM THAT, NOT ONLY IS IMPOSED ON US BY FORCE, BUT IS DESIRED BY US ITS SLAVES.
(Lucas Grisafulli) About business, high finance and other pursuits of (pretended) happiness. (Susan George) Let us start with Karl Marx…
513 HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES ON INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ARE STILL TO BE FOUGHT-FOR.
On foreign aid, corruption, democracy and development: implications for the human right to health. 1. For the Global South to…
512 BE NOTIFIED: THE INTRODUCTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK IS NOT A FASHION; IT EMBODIES A SEMINAL PARADIGM SHIFT –NOT SMOOTH, BUT A BREAK. (part 2 of 2)
The difficulty has not been in floating new ideas, but in escaping the old ones that pervade every corner of…
511 BE NOTIFIED: THE INTRODUCTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK IS NOT A FASHION; IT EMBODIES A SEMINAL PARADIGM SHIFT –NOT SMOOTH, BUT A BREAK. (part 1 of 2)
-Are we all being co-opted too easily by the comforts of conforming? Are we fearful of the retribution that questioning…
510 DEVELOPMENT: A SOCIAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS TINDERBOX.
-A defiant development strategy is to reverse the ‘normal’. So, should development be ‘delivered’ or be participatory? You know the…