Human rights: Food for a solidary thought (2) Human Rights Reader 467 Recapping As of now, many RTH activists place too high expectations on the work of the judiciary to…
Human rights: Food for a solidary thought Human Rights Reader 466 What is missing that is inherent to it? 1. What is missing is effectively linking the many (so far)…
Human rights: Food for a socially pathological thought Human Rights Reader 465 1. Mental health constructs under capitalism entail accepting a ‘pathological normalcy’, i.e., social pathologies that have become to…
Human rights: Food for the wrong use of a thought Human Rights Reader 464 -He who controls the definition controls the policy. 1. The current main beneficiaries of development are…
Human rights: Food for a pandemic thought Human Rights Reader 463 *: Also rightly called ‘corporate vectors of disease’ (Lucy Gilmore) or ‘harm industries’. (M. Welker) These industries talk about…
Human rights: Food for a David against Goliath thought (2) Human Rights Reader 462 It is politically delicate to interfere in the very limited (shrinking?) national space for effective human…
Human rights: Food for a David against Goliath thought Human Rights Reader 461 The problem is that, in the struggle, ‘having an interest in human rights’ is not enough to…
Human rights: Food for a non-celebratory thought Human Rights Reader 460 -We rather ought to look with serious concern on the more immediate future of human rights (HR). 1. Very…
-So many people have no other teacher than the street and no other doctor than death. (Eduardo Galeano, Apuntes para Fin de Siglo) 1. You have to be aware that…
Globalization is obviously rewarding already acquired capital, not human beings 1. Those left out from the benefits of globalization look up at the winners, whom they see succeed simply because…