Human rights: Food for a non-conformist thought Human Rights Reader 468 From the time we are born, they train us to see no more that tidbits of reality. A culture…
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…