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 experienced human rights activist over the last 25 years. The…
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 is policy failure, more than anything else that prevents us…
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 colonization changed its face and did not need brutal force…
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 1. For Marx, the whole capitalist system is inescapably rigged…
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 achieve truly universal health care coverage, I posit that, from…
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 our minds (John Meynard Keynes) 12. We live in a…
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 may and often does bring? (Romila Thappar) -We do have…
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 answer… -As a development motivation in this tinderbox, compassion is…
509 NUMBERS ARE NOT ALWAYS AS SIMPLE OR AS NEUTRAL AS THEY SEEM AND THE INTERNET HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO A ‘DIGITAL EXTRACTIVE ECONOMY’
(Alex Gladstein, RobertoSavio) -The problem with using statistics to sing the praises of autocracy is that collecting verifiable data inside closed societies is nearly impossible. 1. The data that ‘proves’…
508 TIME TO REJECT A HISTORY LOADED WITH AMBIGUITIES, MANIPULATIONS, BIASED INTERPRETATIONS AND INACCURACIES?
(Louis Casado) -Along human history, fictitious stories, over and over, succeeded over the truth. For hundreds of years, historians have known this. This is why they so often have had…