430. I HAVE DERIVED MY POLITICS FROM ETHICS… IT IS BECAUSE I SWEAR BY ETHICS THAT I FIND MYSELF IN POLITICS.
The end justifies the means when something justifies the end (Joseph Stalin) 1. In case you have not noticed it,…
428. ANY SITUATION, AS BAD AS IT HAS BECOME, CAN GET WORSE. (Ho Chi Minh)
-In the post-truth era, it is not pessimism that is called-for, realism is. Perhaps truth will ultimately survive and there…
427. OF DATA, COMMUNICATIONS, THE MEDIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
In development work, there is a tendency to confuse political discourse with technical knowledge, enhancing the power of select experts…
426. GIVEN THE STRONG RESISTANCE BY STATES TO ANY TRUE ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISMS IN AGENDA 2030, WILL THE SDGs LEAD TO STATES AIMING TO ACHIEVE ‘HUMAN-RIGHTS-DEVOID-OF-MEANING’ INDICATORS?
We cannot create the impression that the SDGs are a normative rather than a political framework. The SDGs are a…
425. NEOLIBERALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: WHEN THE NEW ADOPTS THE CLOTHES OF THE OLD. (Harriet Friedmann)
Nothing disappears until it is truly replaced. (Auguste Comte) 1. Neoliberalism is not really new. It is actually an even…
424. WHAT WE ARE DEFENDING IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE RIGHT TO HEALTH (!), NOT UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE PER-SE.
[Adapted from Anchoring Universal Health Coverage in the RTH: What difference would it make? Policy Brief, WHO, 2015, G. Ooms…
423. THE PARTICIPATION RHETORIC HAS HIDDEN THE REALITY OF WHAT EXCLUSION IN HUMAN RIGHTS TERMS REALLY IS.
Look at the travesty of language: ‘The excluded’ are the majority, no?; actually, the ‘included’ are the minority. [By the…
422. PRESIDENT OBAMA OFTEN REMINDED US THE ARC OF HISTORY IS LONG; BUT DOES IT BEND TOWARDS JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS? BENDING THE ARC OF HISTORY WE MUST.
1. Here are a bunch of questions that have for long puzzled other critics and me • Why is it…
421. THE VIEW FROM ORTHODOXY: POINT/COUNTERPOINT ON GLOBALIZATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
[Excerpted from F&D, the IMF quarterly publication, 53:4, December 2016 (with human rights issues added)]. Setting the stage 1. The…
420. RELIGIONS HAVE A STRONG POWER ON POLITICS, ON SOCIETY AND ON HUMAN RIGHTS: THEY SHAPE WORLD VIEWS, WAYS OF LIFE AND THE TYPE OF SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT OF MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE GLOBE. (N. Farouq)
Religion and Science 1. Insofar as religion makes claims in the area of science –which it does, because it talks…