460. IT LOOKS AND FEELS TO MANY OF US THAT BELIEVE IN HUMAN RIGHTS THAT THIS IS NOT A TIME FOR CELEBRATIONS.
Human rights: Food for a non-celebratory thought Human Rights Reader 460 -We rather ought to look with serious concern on…
459. DEALING WITH THE ISSUE OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH.
-So many people have no other teacher than the street and no other doctor than death. (Eduardo Galeano, Apuntes para…
458. GLOBALIZATION PUTS THE FREEDOM OF PRIVATE BUSINESS ABOVE THE FREEDOM OF PEOPLE AND THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS. HUMAN BEINGS BECOME HUMAN RESOURCES.
Globalization is obviously rewarding already acquired capital, not human beings 1. Those left out from the benefits of globalization look…
457. THE DANGER OF ABUSING HISTORY IS THAT IT FLATTENS OUT THE COMPLEXITY OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF THE HAVE-NOTS AND LEAVES NO ROOM FOR DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PAST. (M. MacMillan)
Let me start with a disclaimer -Have we been bewitched by history? -Why has history, that was a goddess for…
456. WHAT WE ARE NOT DOING THROUGH THE SDGs IS MEASURING THE DISPARITY REDUCTION RATIO* FROM HERE TO 2030.
*: i.e., the annual rate at which each country is closing the gap between its current economic disparity score and…
455. TRUE DEMOCRACY IS ACTUALLY ‘THE’ DELIVERY SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (Shula Koenig)
-Democracy was born at the local level, and that is where we can win it back. (Barcelone en Comú) Human…
454. THE CHALLENGE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS UNFORTUNATELY OFTEN IS THAT THEY HAVE TO DRIVE THE TRAIN AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY ARE LAYING THE TRACKS.
-Activists’ work is about recruiting the heart and training the brain. (Hesperian Foundation) 1. For a good human rights activist,…
453. VIVA LA COMUNICACIÓN! ABAJO LA TELE-COMUNICACIÓN! THERE ARE NO LONGER VISIONS, THERE ARE TELE-VISIONS; WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE HUMAN RELATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
-Television is chewing gum for the eyes. (Frank Lloyd Wright) Do not be fooled: The media are ‘ideology formers’. We…
452. REDUCING INEQUALITY CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT REDISTRIBUTING CURRENTLY AVAILABLE RESOURCES MORE FAIRLY.
[This is why the Readers keep insisting, not on poverty alleviation, but on disparity reduction]. 1. Unite States citizens tend…
451. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ‘DISEASES OF POVERTY’ THERE ARE ‘DISEASES OF WEALTH WITH INEQUALITY’.
We have to change our outlook, because, otherwise, those rendered poor appear as responsible of their ill-health. What the dominant…